On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote: > Unfortunately, the filesystem ext2 recognises neither the gid= nor the > umask= options, and refuses to mount! I can find no similar options for
Those options are only valid for MS-DOS and other filesystems which do not have provisions for permissions. Since ext2 contains its own permission information, that is used instead of mount options. > ext2. I really don't understand why mount removes the permissions I set > on the directory I want to mount on. What else could I do? When you mount a volume, the permissions of the volume's / directory supersede those of the mount point. WHen you unmount it again, the mount point's permissions should come back. If you want to change the permissions of the volume's / directory, change them with chmod once it's mounted.
