Re: [2.5.46] Problems with vfat mount umask on directories

[DevilKin <devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org>]

On Thursday 07 November 2002 07:28, DevilKin wrote:
> 'llo list.
>
> This morning I discovered I no longer could write on my vfat data partition
> as a normal user. The following line is present in /etc/fstab (and has
> worked before with atleast 2.5.40 and each and every 2.4 kernel I used)
>

And, as usual, if one would first READ the docs and then ask help, one would 
get a lot farther. Sorry bout this... :oP Just read the 
Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt file, it says something about dmask (not 
present currently in the mount manpage) which made everything work again.

Another case of RTFM...

DK
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