Re: Mount question

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Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:38:31 +0100 (MET)

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> How are the permissions of a directory modified if an ext2 filesystem
> is mounted in it?

They are not modified at all.
But the name of the directory refers to the root of the mounted
filesystem after mounting.
So the permissions you will see after the mounting are those of the
root of the mounted filesystem.

[and no, trivial Unix questions do not belong on linux-kernel]

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