Quick question

[reinstalled]

This seems to come up every time I use format to partition a disk.
The Set Permission Flag option with choices "wu", "wm", etc...
What exactly do these flags mean and what do they do exactly?
I know the "wu" is set for swap and the overlay but I'm curious once again as to what this all means

Thanks......

 

[spamly]

They don't do anything. They are supposed to be useful for admins to document filesystem types. You can, however, set them to whatever you want and that doesn't actually change any partition attributes.

wm= write mountable
wu= write unmountable
rm= read mountable
etc.

 

[reinstalled]

Thanks Spam!!

That clears it up.