Hello all...

I have what I thought was an easy question to answer but I've been searching forums and googling for about an hour now to no avail!

On a CentOS 5 server that is acting as a disaster recovery server, I have several other file systems mounted to it (2 x NFS 6 x CIFS) under /mnt/drmounts

After mounting up the filesystems and doing an ls -l /mnt/drmounts, 7 of the mounts (all 6 CIFS and 1 NFS) show up with a green block of colour round them.

Everything seems to work ok, but I would like to know what the green block of colour signifies as one of the mounts doesn't have it?!

Regards,
Gaz.

Enter this at the command line, and all will be revealed.

It's taken me about 3 hours to work this out as well - there's nothing helpful in the manpage.

It appears that the green background signifies a directory that is "other-writable" (it's denoted ow by dircolor)