Securing my out of puppy data files

[d-pupp]

I keep my personal data files in a separate partition
sda1 puppy iso's
sda2 personal data files

I think this is common as you can use files no matter what puppy you have running.
However I just realized that the default access permissions are read to the world.
I want to change that so I set the parent directory permission to 700
From what I understand and some testing this should block access to the world as "Root folder permission limits child files permission"
However I want to go a bit farther and set all files and directory (personal data only) to 750 and maybe set the umask to 027 in my bashrc
Anyone done this or have any advice?

[d-pupp]

I went a head and set the permissions
Here is the code I used if anyone else is interested.

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find -type d -exec chmod -c 750 {} \;

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find -type f -exec chmod -c 640 {} \;

Edit: you have to be in the directory you want to change or supply a path to it.
Edit: umask in the bashrc does work if you type it correctly umask 027 NOT umask=027

I set the umask in bashrc but it did not work so I set it in /etc/profile and it works in the terminal but not in rox.
Rox must have it's own permission mask. It doesn't seem to be user configurable so I will have to change permissions on every new file I make