hawklord 0 Report post Posted June 21, 2010 (edited) hi, (sorry if this is in the wrong section, move at your will) this isn't really a problem - at least i don't think it is, but its an annoyance i'm running mandriva 2010.0 one, fully updated and working as it should, the annoyance is i have a fixed ntfs storage drive which is owned by root, when i transfer file to it i get a message saying "could not change permissions for /media/sdb2/any.file" i have to click 'ok' for the message to go, its a bit annoying if i'm transfering, say, 10 files, now as an experiment i opened konqueror as root and changed the owner manualy to a folder that is on sdb2 - wouldn't change, so i typed in a root terminal chown -r dave /media/sdb2/foldername still no change, do i need to change ownership of the whole partition ?, can i do it editing fstab ? here is the line in my fstab UUID=2A1C807A1C8042B5 /media/sdb2 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0 i don't know whether this will help [dave@localhost ~]$ cd /media/sdb2 [dave@localhost sdb2]$ ls -l total 10456 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2010-06-20 19:41 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16384 2010-06-19 00:04 [dave@localhost sdb2]$ (i've removed file names and file entries as they all say drwxrwxrwx 1 root root) thanks for any help Edited June 23, 2010 by hawklord Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
K Bergen 1 Report post Posted June 21, 2010 I don't know how to bypass the messages as I have no ntfs partitions to test with but "chown" will not work on Windows file systems as they know nothing about unix ownership and permissions. Ken Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
{BBI}Nexus{BBI} 2 Report post Posted June 22, 2010 I get the same message. Â All I do is leave the message there until the file transfers complete and then I click it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hawklord 0 Report post Posted June 23, 2010 hey guys, thanks for the answers and info, i seem to have found a fix, quite by accident - really i tripple boot with pclinuxos as one of my boot options and was having a nosy around my root in pclos from mandriva, i had a look in pclos's fstab and noticed that umask=000 was not in the entry for the ntfs partition and i booted into pclos to check for the info box when i copied a file across, no box, booted back into mandriva and removed the umask=000, ctrl, alt and backspace, logged back in - no change, still got the box so i rebooted, copied a file across - bingo, no info box case solved Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites