Dear Jean-Pierre Your Ubuntu boss wants 200 million users by 2015. You do not help him, if you reply going into the internals of Ubuntu. A normal user, one of the 200 million: - does not want to know that udisk mounts the partition. - does not understand masks or boolean algebra.
So I explain my problem again in plain English. I do not have an urgent problem anymore, because I recreated the partition and restored all files from my back-up. Before the problem it was a ntfs partition, because I used to dual boot with Vista. A couple of years ago I dumped Vista, but kept the ntfs data partition. Just being lazy. Grsync/rsync made an error, in the sync/copy operation, they went outside their scope/envelop and also changed the permissions of the partition instead of only the permissions of the folders they copied. I filed a separate bug report for it. As one of those 200 million users I expect that I could go to the permission tab of nautilus and correct that situation manually and that was not possible. For a normal user that is not understandable. I believe that everything works probably according to the "specification", but my point is that the specification is wrong or at least not understandable for the 200 million. In Windows as administrator in the security tab of the folder/partition, you can change the owner and set the permissions as you prefer without worrying about masks and mount commands and that is how it should be. Sorry :) A solution could be: *The default mount commands should never overrule/mask the file/folder permissions!* That type of functionallity is only useful for professional administrators. For a normal user Ubuntu/Nautilus should show the stored file permission and he/she should not have to worry about mount masks. Besides the permission tab should display at least a warning, if the actual permission are different from the stored file permissions. Transparency & simplicity! I will carefully check what happened with the masks etc, and whether Ubuntu 11.10 really behaved according your specification, but I have to recreate/simulate that situation. Regards Bert On 12/20/2011 04:16 AM, Jean-Pierre wrote: >> How is a normal user supposed to know that we have to use a >> special mount command in that case? If the mount has been >> inconsistent with rsync operation I expect a warning and not >> this type of own, unexpected default action of the system. > Your device was probably mounted automatically by udisks, which forces > "fmask=177, dmask=077" > >> I have used the mount command with the permission set to 777, >> without any success. > Please post your exact command, or try : > > mount -t ntfs -o permissions MY-DEVICE MY-MOUNT-POINT > chmod 731 MY-MOUNT-POINT/my-file > ls -l MY-MOUNT-POINT/my-file > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906117 Title: NTFS partition unusable after copying network folder to it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntfs-3g/+bug/906117/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
