[PLUG] Simple question

[Pat Finnegan]

Look at the manual page for mount - "man mount" - under the
filesystem-specific options.  With a fat fs, you have to set permissions
(generally speaking) for the entire fs, since it doesn't support true
premissions.

-- Pat

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Charles Allen wrote:

> How can one find the octal value of the access mode used by a file?  My
> problem is that I mount the fat32 partition of my harddrive at startup,
> and I want to be able to write to it.. but only by certain users.
> Aparently the default option is to have  o+w        which isn't good.
> Thanks for your help
>
> -chuck
>
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