Re: mount changes permissions of directory?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:59:23AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> 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

The first of these shows you the permissions of the /mnt/d directory on
the filesystem mounted on /. The second shows you the permissions of the
/ directory on the filesystem mounted on /mnt/d. Does that help?

Very little ever pays attention to the permissions on the mount point
itself (the first).

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]