Subject: Re: bug#18937: chmod ???? bug?
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Plato <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:13:08 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 11/03/2014 10:26 AM, Plato wrote:
> chmod -R 644/media/plato/mountedpartition/

The behavior you observe is what I'd expect once the permissions on 
directories are messed up. To fix it, try "chmod -R 
+X/media/plato/mountedpartition/" as root.