On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:13:19 -0500 timothy.larsen@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > What do the kudzu and umask option do in fstab. umask allows all users to read-write in windows partitions. It's like permissions opposite; in a certain way umask=000 is chmod=777. Kudzu is a service (?) that scans for new hardware. When you install something new or remove hardware from your machine you should run Kudzu to get it configured. But I cannot figure out for what is it there in /etc/fstab. -- Your supervisor is thinking about you.