Accessing Win98 partition

[Rodney Kanno]

interesting........Thanks for the explanation Jeff!

Rodney

On Tuesday 02 October 2001 03:17 pm, you wrote:
> The umask=0 tells mount what permissions to remove from the partition (0
> means don't remove any permissions).  Generally speaking, umask is an
> inverse bitmask that should be applied to files, so a umask of 0 applied
> to any file will keep the original permissions, while a umask of 777 would
> remove all permissions.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Rodney Kanno wrote:
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > Yeah I am using wine, and I do store unix binaries on there hehee. That
> > drive is pretty much a storage drive for both windows and linux as well
> > as fir running a few programs. what's umask=0 do? I just copied my old
> > fstab file that's why.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rodney
> >
> > On Tuesday 02 October 2001 06:23 am, you wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:43:55PM -0400, Rodney Kanno wrote:
> > > > instead of being like this:
> > > >
> > > > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat
> > > > user,exec,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
> > > >
> > > > it was like this:
> > > >
> > > > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
> > > >
> > > > is this okay? I mean I can write to the drive now, but is the the
> > > > "correct" way it is supposed to be set up?
> > >
> > > Are you sure you want exec as an option? I'd probably make it noexec
> > > and nosuid, looks fine apart from that though. Again, I don't have
> > > any vfat partitions lying around though..
> > >
> > > Only reason you might want to make it exec is if you're using wine,
> > > or if you have unix binaries on there.. which would be a bit odd
> > > frankly.
> >
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