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

2005-05-06 Thread Kevin1
Thanks Laura, The four-digit masks did the trick, but I don't understand why 3-digits work ok for fat but not for ntfs. I'm sure I read somewhere that a missing first digit should default to zero anyway. I'm even more confused because the sense of the last three digits is the inverse of the requir

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

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin1
Point taken Dragan. What I want to do is remove the 'execute' permission from all files under /mnt/winC and /mnt/winE. Thanks for the tip Bill. /dev/hda1 /mnt/winC vfatuid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=007,fmask=117 0 0 ... allows owner and group to navigate, create & delete direc