[2.5.46] Problems with vfat mount umask on directories

[2.5.46] Problems with vfat mount umask on directories

[DevilKin]

'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)

/dev/hda7   /mnt/data      vfat      defaults,gid=103,umask=007       0 0

which gives the partition a mask of 770 to all users in gid 103 (which is 
conveniently named fat32). I myself as user devilkin am in this group...

Yet, the directory is still:

07:22:56 root@laptop:/mnt# ls -ld data
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     fat32       16384 Jan  1  1970 data

(and where the hell did that date come from??)

The permissioning on the files inside this directory seems correct, but for 
the directories it is wrong:

-rwxrwx---    1 root     fat32         313 May 27 12:32 afile.ini*
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     fat32       16384 Aug 22 13:01 adir/

which denies me the write rights I need.


Did something change on the fat/vfat/... layer that can cause this to no 
longer function?

If you need some more info, just yell... I hope this issue can be resolved.

DK
-- 
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	Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is
funnier.

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

[DevilKin]

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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