Exhanging files with XP ?

Vivek J. Patankar list307 at gmail.com
Sat May 20 14:11:58 UTC 2006


On 5/20/06, Guillermo Garron <ggarron at alketech.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Can you give us an example please?
> thanks,
>
> Guillermo.
> Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> > On 5/20/06, David Fletcher <fc at fletchersweb.net> wrote:
> >> This seems to do what I want it to:-
> >> /dev/sda5 /mnt/WindowsData vfat rw,defaults,umask=007,uid=dave 0 0
> >> So far as I know, you can put the mount point anywhere you like,
> >> including in
> >> a home directory.
> >
> > umask will give the same default permissions for files and
> > directories, which means file that are not supposed to have execute
> > permissions will have them. Try fmask & dmask instead.

It's the same as umask, except fmask applies only to files and dmask
only to directories.

/dev/sda5 /mnt/WindowsData vfat rw,defaults,dmask=007,fmask=117,uid=dave 0 0

The above modification to David's fstab entry should do the trick.

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