When my laptop boots up, I have my Windows partition mounted automatically within /etc/fstab. Here is the entry: /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosc vfat gid=0,mode=0660 0 0 When I boot up the permissions on /dev/dosc is: drwxr-xr-x on bootup. If I umount and then remount the drive, it mounts with permissions drwxrwxr-x. Thanks for your time.
Fixed in the devel tree (created /etc/filesyste,s with sane defaults)