After those long emails trying to cure the symptoms the following bug remains:
I had a working ntfs partition and used it for ubuntu 9.10/10.04/10.10/11.04 and 11.10 for both read and write. I had a windows XP network folder with full permissions set to "system" and my user-id and none to others. My user-id is the same on all systems. I used grsync to copy that subfolder from the network folder to my local ntfs partition. unfortunately it had the preserve owner, preserve group and preserve permission ticked. After the grsync operation my ntfs partition had the following permission settings: owner "root" with permissions to "access files" only. Group and Others had no permissions at all. the mount operation in fstab has been the same before and after the copy operation: /dev/sda3 /media/Dell-Data ntfs defaults 0 0 The operation should only have touched the permissions of the folders that were copied/synced and should NOT have changed the mount behavior of the partition nor the permission of the partition itself. -- 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
