On 30/07/11 01:00, Rajko M. wrote:
On Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:18:29 PM Basil Chupin wrote:
But it does sound a bit paradoxical to have these masks applying to windows partitions The only paradox is applying restrictive masks that require visit to http://en.opensuse.org/NTFS and manually change /etc/fstab file to be able to use hard disk space on Windows partition. It is scary how easy is to render fstab useless.
You added that partition to file system, to make access easy, and then you scrambled permissions without safe way to enable them, where safe is understandable, with sufficient warnings.
(Over)Protecting users from themselves is doomed to fail. Those that know computers will be annoyed. They will realize that from Linux they see stuff that is hidden in Windows, and that they have to be careful. Those that don't are doing irresponsible things everywhere (in Windows, cell phones, smartphones, Macs, on the street, in the house).
In other words, you make yourself look bad without any positive effect on majority of users.
I am not sure what you are arguing about or pointing out to me, Rajko. I guess that it must be all a matter of English expression. Whichever is the case, here is the situation for which I asked a solution. I have a couple of HDDs which have always had XP installed. I have been using SuSE/openSUSE for 10 years now and cannot remember not being able to write to the Windows partitions since ntfs-3g was implemented and without having to do any fiddles in fstab. Now, why was ntfs-3g implemented? Anyway, using these HDDs I did a clean install of openSUSE 11.4 - and then found that I could not write to the Windows partitions. (The answer lay in the fstab parameters for the windows partitions.) Just in case you think that this is a "one-off" situation, I have installed previous versions of oS on these HDDs as well as other distros - and all were able to write to those partitions. As I said, it is probably a matter of the use of English, but your comments seem to indicate that by me asking the question and then altering the fmask and dmask as suggested has somehow made "[myself] look bad" and negatively affected the "majority of users". I shall ask again: why was ntfs-3g implemented? BC -- Paradise is like Hell and neither is too far from you because both are creations of your mind and therefore both are already inside you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org