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user,group access to dos vfat files



Success!  Thanks for your input, but, alas, answers supplied didn't solve the problem....
 
Trying to chmod a dos partition just doesn't work, at least in RH 5.1 or 5.2.  Those settings must be changed (apparently) at mount time.  Rather than having two dos partitions user mountable (and modifying each member of the family's .bash_profile) I really wanted to get the fstab settings to work.  It seems RH defaults to perm=755 even though I had perm=770 in the fstab setting.  What finally worked was the following:
 
/dev/hda1  /dos/c  vfat conv=auto,uid=500,gid=500,umask=007 0 0
 
where gid=me gid=family group
 
Now, why does umask=007 work, but not perm=770?
 
Have  great Thanksgiving everyone...
 
Robert