[plug] ubuntu 6.06 and file permissions for fat32

[Mike Holland]

Josh Fletcher wrote:

> Because I wanted to share files between both OS's, I set up a FAT32
> partition that both can read/write to. 

Fat32 has no concept of file ownership, and when you mount it, you can 
specify the user and group for all files.
   See the man page for mount(8). Find the part with options for 'fat'.
You can use those options in /etc/fstab.

        uid=value and gid=value
               Set the owner and group of all files.  (Default: the uid 
and gid of  the  current process.)

        umask=value
               Set  the  umask  (the  bitmask  of  the permissions that 
are not present). The
               default is the umask of the current process.  The value 
is given in octal.