On 12/19/2011 03:37 AM, Jean-Pierre wrote: >> 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. > This is what you are supposed to get if you did not mount with option > "permissions" or define the user mapping. How is a normal user supposed to know that we have to use a special mount command in that case? If the mount has been inconsistent with rsync operation I expect a warning and not this type of own, unexpected default action of the system. >> It has been impossible to correct the situation manually. If grsync >> or other programs are allowed to mess up my permission, I need >> at least the possibility to manually correct it. > Use the "permissions" mount option or define a user mapping. The latter > is required for automatic mount with no mount command or /etc/fstab > entry. I have used the mount command with the permission set to 777, without any success. To make sure that I did not misinterpret the complex command line options, I have used also a gui for the mount command with the same result. >
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