[plug] More newbie questions: the return of boxie

[John Breen]

> > Finally, although all users can access the windows98se partition on
> > my HDD, they cannot save files there or replace files there.  How can
> > I make it so that all users have permissions to read/write/execute
> > files from there, as I'm making my windows partition my doanload area
> > as I download for both OSes from both OSes?
>
> read the mount man page I think the options you're looking for is umask.
> Just add the appropriate value to /etc/fstab.
>
>

Yes, that's right, but remember that what's listed in the umask option is
the permissions that are NOT there - the opposite of what you might expect.
To set rw- for all users, you actually need to pass the umask that
corresponds to --x. (111, I think...)


Regards,

John Breen

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| John Breen
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