Friday 14 Oct 2005 20:39 samaye Gaël Lams alekhiit:
Right: the umask command is used to determine the default file creation mode on your system. If you change it, the files created before this change will keep their current permissions (fortunately).
Well that's actually unfortunate for me. What I want is for my vfat partitions to be like my own home partition rwxr--r-- throughout. One time by mistake I mounted it with some other umask (I think) and it keeps remembering that and even if I set umask=033 now it does not give rwxr--r-- to the files. So how do I make the system forget the permissions of the inodes in the Windows partition? If I start up my machine once without mounting the Windows partition will that do? P.S: I tried using chmod -Rf 0744 /win with mixed success...