From: David Engel (david@ods.com)
Date: 04/15/93


From: david@ods.com (David Engel)
Subject: Re: A couple of questions:
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 22:43:58 GMT

Drew Eckhardt (drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu) wrote:
: Nope, it's based on the umask at the time of the mount call. Instead
: of a plan mount, do

: umask 22
: mount /dos
:
: or whatever. For this reason, in my /etc/rc file I have

: umask 22
: mount -a
: umask 0

: instead of just a mount -a.

Or better yet, just use the uid, gid and umask options I added to the
msdos fs some time ago. Just put the appropriate options in
/etc/fstab and do a regular mount -a. Here is the relevant entry from
my fstab:

        /dev/hda1 /c msdos uid=100,gid=100,umask=022 0 0

David

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