Civileme....yep, my workaround works for me ;-) I guess if you
need to be able to write to the dos partition, there's still a
problem. Luckily I have no burning desire nor smoldering need
to do so. Nor do I have any need to access the partition with
SO. I guess that .directory write will have to be
removed/excluded from non-ext2 partitions, where it's use is
probably minimally useful anyway.
Alan
Civileme wrote:
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > Civileme....that's not what happens here. I have no Templates
> > folder (Air [7.0]) so I created a new folder (test) and put a
> > text file (text) into it. When I drag the new folder into the
> > window containing the dos root directory and choose to copy or
> > move I get an error message '! Could not make directory
> > /mnt/DOS_sda1/test'.
> >
> > Alan]
>
> Understandable, you have defaults which will not allow the
> movement. I MUST allow the movement with my settings so I have
> user, rw, uid=, gid= and so on. Your workaround does seem to
> either prevent the origin of the bug (bug1--making the .directory
> file) and possibly its expression (bug2 - freezing under user
> settings when a .directory file is present in a subdirectory).
>
> Wait til you try to access that partition with StarOffice! It
> needs to be named /dos_sda1 for SO to see it properly.
>
> Anyway, the freezing you described could be a .directory file in a
> subdirectory. Setting defaults works around it, here in 6.0 and
> 6.1, but does not give an ordinary user the type of access I am
> compelled to give.
>
> Civileme
>
> >
> > Civileme wrote:
> > >
> > > The situation is as follows
> > >
> > > Any system with linux-mandrake 6.0, 6.1 or 7.0 (Beta 5) And I
> > > don't know about AIR, with a mounted vfat partition accessible
> > > to the logged user in rw mode. AND it DOESN'T MATTER if you
> > > specify dotsOK=No or nodots in the mount or in /etc/fstab
> > >
> > > Try this
> > >
> > > 1. Open the mounted partition's directory in a kfm window.
> > >
> > > 2. Grab the Templates folder from your kde desktop (any
> > > non-empty folder will do but some won't copy because there are
> > > dotfiles in them {if you have nodots set}) and drag it to the
> > > mounted vfat open window. Select Move or Copy.
> > >
> > > 3. You will see a message window indicating the file
> > > activity.
> > >
> > > 4. Kfm will freeze partway through redisplaying the vfat
> > > partition window
> > >
> > > 5. Kfm will continue to freeze every time you try to open the
> > > window
> > >
> > > Go to windows or to a console and look at the folder you
> > > dragged. You will find a .directory file there
> > >
> > > System function will return to normal once you delete that
> > > .directory file
> > >
> > > Well, in converting to mandrake from windows here, we moved
> > > data files to the workgroup server, restructured the disk and
> > > moved the files back in just a few cases. Some users had a
> > > huge number of Claris works text files, *.cwk, which we had no
> > > filters for, and we left windows semi-functional (no network
> > > access but able to boot) so files could be converted to *.rtf
> > > as needed before being snared by StarOffice in linux. Every
> > > single move of folders to the windows partitions produced the
> > > freeze.
> > >
> > > Now those of you who are having freezes in AIR with DOS_sda1,
> > > DOS_hda1 may find a few settings that will get you in to put
> > > in fstab, but also check folders in the freezing partitions
> > > for the .directory files which may be causing the freeze. kfm
> > > starts taking up to 99.3% of processor time when this freeze
> > > happens, indicating it might be hung in a loop.
> > >
> > > Civileme
