On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:51:50 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:17:21PM -0400, Phill Atwood wrote: > > > > > > > > Success. Although I can't say that I really understand. Setting > > umask=0222 in the /etc/fstab file did the trick. I don't understand why > > mounting a ro partition to a directory with just write permissions would > > work. 0544 or 0555 seemed the more logical thing to try... (...) > So I'm not sure how that translates to the first digit since i'm sure > you don't want a perm to come out 7555 using umask of 0222 but maybe > someone can enlighten Well, wikipedia says ;), the bitwise-inverted umask is bitwise ANDed with the *default "full permission"*, i.e. 666 for files and 777 for dirs. This should mean, 0666 and 0777, if I am understanding it right (see interpretation for missing digits in chmod(1)). Thus: 000 110 110 110 AND not(000 010 010 010) = 000 110 110 110 AND 111 101 101 101 = 0444 For dirs, the result is 0555. > > c) Even after this success, dmesg shows: > > > > NTFS volume version 3.1. > > NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): load_system_files(): Unsupported volume > > flags 0x4000 encountered. (...) > i see that a lot and never have any problems. FWIW. but avoid writing > in ntfs if you can. That's really strange ... but I'm pretty sure that's not debian-specific (as I found this on forums for all kinds of distros). > > > Another thing: If you also need write access onto ntfs, and want read > > > access onto compressed files, then the ntfs-3g driver might be > > > interesting for you. For newbies however, it might not be that easy to > > > install... you need to make a package for stable yourself. On the other > > > hand, if you'd need it, I can just do an update/recompile here on my > > > system and send the resulting package to you via email. > > is it in backports? Yep, that's a good hint: ntfs-3g ver 1.516 (slightly outdated) is available if you add the line: deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free into your /etc/apt/sources.list, do apt-get update, and then install. Cheers, Stephan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
