Hi I appreciate that you are helping, but: - I already helped myself by creating an ext4 partition and restoring the files from back-up, - I also want to help to improve Ubuntu and the community technically, but also how it present itself to the ordinary user.
That is the whole point for me of writing the bug-report. There are two basic point left: - I still do not understand why somewhere during last week my ntfs partition became read-only instead of read-write during all those years. Was it caused rsync or an update? Somewhere there is an undetected bug. - You said: "The security concerns are different in Windows and Ubuntu." That is at the heart of the greater problem with Ubuntu/Linux. The statement is not true since the security requirements are dependent on how the system is used. It is not so much what the programmers think, but what the user needs and expects. If Ubuntu wants 200 million users, the ordinary customer (often ex-Windows) must come first. I will update the the bug report in launchpad and address the more philosophical issue in the Ubuntu Forums. best regards Bert On 12/21/2011 03:50 AM, Jean-Pierre wrote: >> Your Ubuntu boss wants... > I was just trying to help, unpaid. > >> 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 :) > And sorry, I have no control on how Ubuntu wants the partitions to be > mounted. The security concerns are different in Windows and Ubuntu. > >> root@Dell-Ubuntu:~# mount -t ntfs -o umask=000 /dev/sdb2 /media/sdb2 >> mount: warning: /media/sdb2 seems to be mounted read-only. >> ... >> /dev/sdb2 on /media/sdb2 type ntfs (ro,umask=000) [HP Data] > This has been mounted with the internal ntfs driver, which is read-only. > Maybe you retry with ntfs-3g. Sorry about the technical explanation. > -- 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
