Hi List Why does a mount change the file permissions of a directory? Example: ls -l /mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2003-01-20 18:29 d mount /mnt/d ls -l /mnt dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2003-01-24 09:22 d ????? /etc/fstab says: /dev/hda7 /mnt/d ntfs user,noauto,ro 0 0 Any idea? joerg