Re: 'umask' and mounting of vfat filesystem.

[Daniel M. <xt@nm.ru>]

>I didn't see it yesterday, but it seems that is is always the write bit
>that does not get set properly. The umask values that work are only
>those that do /not/ allow writing to all files.
>
>Is it possible that the files have been marked "read-only" in Windows
>and that mount respects that setting?

It is indeed the case - all those files (and only those files) which have
wrong permissions, are marked read-only in Windows.

Thanks for the answer!

Daniel.