Re: Basic Debian hd mounting...

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On 25 Sep 1997, Carey Evans wrote:

> Lawrence <ychim@ForeverMail.com> writes:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > it is dangerous!  be aware that the permission is set to rwxrwxrwx and
> > everyone can ERASE files in this partition!!!
> 
> What kind of setup does this?  From my machine at work:
> 
> /dev/hda4       /mnt/win95      vfat    noexec                  0   0
> 
> % ls -l /mnt/win95/autoexec.bat
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          269 Sep 12 10:26 /mnt/win95/autoexec.bat
> 
I believe that this is a matter of the mounted file system taking on the
permissions of the mount point. Unmount the partition and check the
permissions on the mount point. Changing them to something appropriate
should fix the problem.

Luck,

Dwarf
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