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Annoying warning when copying to NTFS [solved]


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Hi,

 

 

I'm getting a really annoying warning in Dolphin when I copy anything to a NTFS partition mounted in /mnt/windows. The files are copied and everything is right, but if I copy a folder containing 300 files I'll have to click on accept 300 times!

 

The warning says "Could not change permissions for FILENAME".

 

 

* I tried the silent option in fstab but it didn't work.

* This is the fstab entry:

 

 

# Entry for /dev/sda6 :

UUID=877148664FEFB610 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0

 

Any ideas?

 

I formatted that partition once and had to configure it from MCC again as it was failing to mount it. Now it mounts and everything is right except for that...

 

Oh, I forgot to say that this does not happen if I'm root.

 

 

Any ideas?

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Try with umask=0 instead of umask=000 - I remember I had umask issues in the past before, or that I simply didn't have access to copy, but then umask=0 was OK. I haven't checked to see if there is a difference between umask=0 or umask=000 so maybe not. Other alternative, is to remove the defaults option and the comma before umask and then try that after unmounting and mounting again.

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Got it!!

 

 

The problem seems to be the absence of a locale parameter.

 

 

Before:

UUID=F2EAD096EAD05905 /mnt/windows/ ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0

 

After:

UUID=F2EAD096EAD05905 /mnt/windows/ ntfs-3g locale=es_CO.UTF-8 0 0

 

In my case, it's the locale for Spanish.

 

All is well now.

 

Thank you Ian :)

 

 

Oh wait. The problem continues:

 

I was wrong, the problem is umask, not locale. If umask is present, the error comes back.

 

Now, the problem is that if I remove it, umask somehow reappears. I'm not sure what creates it, but there is something restoring the option umask=000. Dou you know what could be recreating this parameter?

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