Re: Cannot remove 'execute' permission from vfat & ntfs partitions

[bmarcum@iglou.com (Bill Marcum)]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:42:29AM -0700, Kevin Vickers wrote:
> The relevant lines from /etc/fstab are:
> 
> /dev/hda1	/mnt/winC	vfat	noexec,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000	0	0
> /dev/hda6	/mnt/winE	ntfs	noexec,ro,uid=1000,gid=1000	0	0
> 
> The resulting permissions are:
> 
> /mnt/winC .... rwx r-- r-- , i.e. 744
> /mnt/winE .... r-x --- --- , i.e. 500
> 
> Is there a way of removing the 'execute' permissions from these partitions.
> 
man mount; look at the "dmask" and "fmask" options.


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