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Re: /usr/local



Right.  What I wasn't sure of is whether the installer sets the directory
permissions before prompting you to mount additional filesystems, or
afterward.

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:45:45PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
> 
> > I set mine up as a seperate filesystem when I first installed.  Dunno
> > if that makes a difference permission-wise or not, tho.
> 
> It does.  Mount points take on the permissions of the / directory of the
> mounted filesystem when they are mounted.  But the permissions of the
> mount point are retained also, just not used until the filesystem is
> unmounted again.


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