Re: Mounting a windows partition with full access
>>>>> "ace22b" == ace22b <ace22b@yahoo.com> writes:
>>>>> "Eduard" == Eduard Bloch wrote:
Eduard> Put "umask=000" to the other options in /etc/fstab. "man
Eduard> mount" will tell you more about needed options, eg. gid or
Eduard> uid.
ace22b> I know it's '000', but why ?
ace22b> Why not 666? I was rather puzzled by this a couple of years
ace22b> ago...
Umask is the `reverse' of the permissions. If a bit is set in the
umask, it means `don't set this bit in the permissions of a new
file/directory'.
So, using umask=0 will give you all permissions bits set.
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