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Re: WD Passport commands

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Thanks, Richard.

Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> writes:

> "Owned by owner" doesn't make any sense.  At any rate messing with the
> permissions on /media won't help.

Sorry, meant "owned by user". 

>> As a sanity check, I created a file in its partition. But it looks like
>> this:
>>
>>     -rwxrwxrwx  1 root   root    5 Nov 16 14:56 test
>>
>> I certainly did not want it to be executable or owned by root, but the
>> commands chown and chmod have no effect on it.
>
> I believe a fstab line with uid= and gid= settings will let you control
> this.  Also ntfs-3g supports user mapping (according to its
> documentation; I've never tried).

Tried uid and gid didn't help. 

> However, if what you want is normal Unix permissions then NTFS is a
> completely perverse choice.  It is not a UNix filesystem and will not
> behave like one.  Use ext3 or something instead.

Yes, I see I'm fighting the wind. The drive is for backups, and it is
hard to imagine a scenario in which I needed to extract files from the
archive in a DOS environment. I'll take you advice and format ext3.

Haines 

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WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-05 23:08 -0500
  Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-06 08:50 +0000
  Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-16 15:31 -0500
    Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-16 21:32 +0000
      Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-17 05:57 -0500
        Re: WD Passport commands J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-11-17 13:44 +0000
          Re: WD Passport commands Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-11-17 19:19 +0100
          Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-17 13:25 -0500
            Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-17 20:30 +0000
              Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-20 05:03 -0500
                Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-20 10:25 +0000
                Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-20 11:27 -0500
            Re: WD Passport commands J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-11-18 18:16 +0000
            Re: WD Passport commands Bill Marcum <bill@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-11-19 03:03 -0500

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