NTFS permissions are wrong using fstab-sync?

[Kristof Vansant]

drwxr--r--  16 lupus users 32768 1970-01-01 00:00 idedisk/
drwxr--r--   6 lupus users 32768 1970-01-01 00:00 idedisk1/
drwx------   1 root  root  40960 2004-08-18 13:58 idedisk2/
drwxr--r--   6 lupus users  8192 1970-01-01 00:00 idedisk3/

for some reason ntfs is mounted as root

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 21:56, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Dude, please fix your timezone/clock etc., it's two hours ahead,
put it in GMT time you mean? in Belgium it is this time :)
> 
> On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 23:38 +0000, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> > my fstab using utopia:
> > 
> > /dev/floppy/0           /media/floppy           auto  
> > noauto,user,exec,dev,sui d 0 0
> > /dev/hda8               /media/idedisk          vfat   
> > noauto,user,exec,dev,sui d 0 0
> > /dev/hdd                /media/cdrw_dvdrw       auto   
> > noauto,user,exec,dev,sui d,ro 0 0
> > /dev/hda6               /media/idedisk1         vfat   
> > noauto,user,exec,dev,sui d 0 0
> > /dev/hda1               /media/idedisk2         ntfs   
> > noauto,user,exec,dev,sui d 0 0
> > /dev/hdb                /media/cdrw             auto   
> > noauto,user,exec,dev,sui d,ro 0 0
> > /dev/hda7               /media/idedisk3         vfat   
> > noauto,user,exec,dev,sui 
> > 
> > 
> > I can look into the vfat mounts but not in ntfs there it gives a error
> > telling me I don't have the necessary permissions.
> > 
> 
> The options should probably be tuned a bit - ideally I want fstab-sync
> to be able to read options from the users session or something. One
> thing that would be nice, would be to use option 'sync' on usbsticks,
> but not on usb harddrives. Tricky, we'll probably need to look at the
> size or some other heuristic.
> 
> Regarding NTFS, I dunno; perhaps patching mount(1) so it accepts an
> option to set udi,gid=$USER would be worthwhile to hack on.
> 
> > Maybe the problem is in GVM?
> > 
> 
> No, g-v-m runs in your session, it's fstab-sync.
> 
> > PS: I would rather have them having the volume names like movies, music
> > or something else. 
> > 
> 
> You can always add your own entries and build hal with --enable-fstab-
> noop so it doesn't delete such entries [1]. Another interesting feature
> would be the ability to add stable mount point names.
> 
> However, I don't think both features matters much eventually; the UI
> shouldn't be exposing the mount point name and it should use the UDI as
> the stable reference to the media. But that's something for the
> future :-).
> 
> David
> 
> [1] : you need to ensure that mount(1) accepts the noop kudzu; that
> should probably be configurable from hal's configure.in; care to send a
> patch?
-- 
lupusBE (Kristof Vansant Belgium

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