ceg, your suggestions sounds perfect. I've verified your fix. Here is the procedure, for anyone else who wants to do this.
Within gconf-editor, I used the "Find" tool to search for "vfat" (searching also in all key names and key values). This returned the key "/system/storage/default_options/vfat" I deleted the umask key, then added the 2 keys you suggested as follows: dmask=022 fmask=133 Now all directories/folders on my vfat USB flash drives and USB external hard drives are presented with the permissions: drwxr-xr-x ...and all files on my vfat USB flash drives and USB external hard drives are presented with the permissions: -rw-r--r-- Perfect! This matches the default umask that Ubuntu sets up by default for all users in /etc/profile ceg, you da man!! -- can't easily use unison-gtk to sync a local folder to my VFAT USB drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118283 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
