Graham Lawrence wrote: > I thank you all for your help, but I really can't use your > recommendations without screwing up something else on my system. I > have a script which runs automatically on system startup which > immediately references this ntfs drive, so I must have this drive > automount on startup like my internal HD, or the script will fail. It > runs for several hours, during which I can't unmount and remount the > drive. > > The initial mount command assigns the drive to ROOT:ROOT with rwx > permissions for all users. These cannot be changed with chown, chmod, > chgrp as explained at > http://ubuntu.swerdna.org/ubuntfs.html > As this is an ubuntu site this behavior is not specific to my distro, > slackware. I assume it is standard behavior for the kernel, ntfs-3g > and the core utilities. > > I appreciate that one can get vim to write to this drive by having it > use a different linux command to do so, and am already doing that. > But I often forget to use it because my vim shutdown script > automatically writes out any altered buffers; but then it fails if it > tries to write to this ntfs drive. The only feasible solution for me > is to elaborate my shutdown script to choose the appropriate write > procedure for each buffer. > > I think this is a bug in vim. The ownership of the file should not be > an issue, only the permissions, which are as they should be. This is > the standard adhered to by all other apps except, as far as I know, > only vim.
One suggestion I haven't heard yet: Try changing the 'backupcopy' setting. Vim has some protection against doing bad things with root permission, that might interfere with what you are doing. -- Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food? /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
