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Setting filesystem mounting umask on OS X
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Mar 15, 2026962 viewsConfidence Score0%
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(Using Snow Leopard.) When I plug in a flash drive formatted with FAT32, the permissions on all files on the drive are set as 0666; between colored and my obsessive-compulsive nature, this is annoying. Is there any way to make it automatically mount with a different umask?
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Fix for: Setting filesystem mounting umask on OS X
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Modifying files under /System/Library can cause problems; enter at your own risk; take backups first, etc. Whatever: there's a reason this site is called Super User. Onward: There is a file: /System/Library/Filesystems/msdos.fs/Contents/Info.plist T…
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