yee-gads! i almost had it.

["bntly.rhds" <bentley.rhodes@gmail.com>]

    greetings, i pulled out my reeference book and discovered the 
heximal thing for fstab someone mentioned was 0 for full rights 
(normally 7), and so on.  i found in the book how it was determined.  
apparently if i want -rwxrw-r-- then i need to put 764 minus 666 which 
gives me 098.  i don't know, but does that sound right?  umask=098 (aka 
764)? 
    if so, here's another question.  i was trying to edit my fstab 
entry, here it is fstab and then mtab normally:

    * /dev/sda1               /media/usbdisk          vfat   
      pamconsole,exec,noauto,iocharset=utf8,noatime,sync,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed
      0 0
    * /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat
      rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,noatime,iocharset=utf8,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,user=bntly_rhds
      0 0

    now, i have tried to change the entries from usbdisk to tyeblen, and 
on just one entry (fstab or mtab) and on both.  upon rebooting the 
&*@**&! has changed it back to the original configuration.  i also 
noticed that there is a thing called LABEL=/folder.  where does that 
point to?  if i'm asking to many questions, i'd appreciate the one being 
answered about the fstab file, mainly on how i can keep it from changing 
itself back to a different entry than the one i changed it to.  so here 
goes:

    * why does fstab and mtab keep changing their contents when i have
      modified them as root.
    * what is a label, and how can i tell the computer that i want
      LABEL=/portney in fstab, and perhaps it should point to mtab?

    i think that is it.  have a good day!

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