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How to set default permissions for automounted FAT drives in Ubuntu 9.10?

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I've got many FAT32 drives that I'd like to mount in Ubuntu such that they have permission mode 700 for directories and 600 for all other files. By default, they have 755 for all files, which is not particularly useful since almost no non-directories should be executable, and it screws up version c…

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Updated Unfortunately there is no built-in means to do this. The "right way", the supported way, is setting an /etc/fstab line with the default mount options you want. This means your defaults must be set per-device, though you can use the partition…

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