"Marty P. Combs" wrote:
> Sorry if my previous e-mail wasn't that clear. I meant the umask
> setting in your .chsrc or .bash_profile, etc. If you set a umask
> variable there, every time you copy/move a file, it tries to change the
> permission bits on the file.
>
> If you try to move/copy a file on the FAT/VFAT partition, it tries to
> change those permission bits which then fails with the error "operation
> not permitted". Depending on what shell you're using, comment out the
> "umask" settings and you won't get that error.
well, I tried issuing the command `umask 002` then copying a file to the drive, but
still got the error. So I looked up the man for umask, and it says the number is
ANDed with 777, so I would have thought 022=rwxrwxr-x as it has on the file system in
question. But it doesn't, it gives me rw-rw-r--. It doesn't seem to make sense that
the umask for my shell and the umask for a mounted file system behave differently.
Can anyone clarify?
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