[Bug 1266609] [NEW] ntfs-3g allows creation of files that can't be manipulated in windows

2014-01-06 Thread Eric Roy Hyatt
Public bug reported: The ntfs-3g authors set a high standard for their software: to allow other operating systems to interoperate with Windows, (quirks and all). I have found a small set of file names which ntfs-3g allows and which are incompatible with windows. System: Xubuntu 13.10, one ext4

[Bug 1194225] Re: Can't set current working directory into ntfs mounted directory.

2013-10-18 Thread Eric Roy Hyatt
The whole sentence is deceptive. My issue arose because I applied "no_def_opts". The documentation says that "no_def_opts" cancels options "silent", "allow_other", and "nonempty". The documentation does not say that "no_def_opts" overrides the "default behavior" described in the Access Handling p

[Bug 1194225] Re: Can't set current working directory into ntfs mounted directory.

2013-10-17 Thread Eric Roy Hyatt
Repeating my tests, I agree with Jean-Pierre: the system response is "Operation not supported" not "Operation not permitted". I wrote my report of 16 October from handwritten notes--I conclude that I transcribed the system response incorrectly. Thanks you Mr. Andre for your suggestions regardin

[Bug 1194225] Re: Can't set current working directory into ntfs mounted directory.

2013-10-15 Thread Eric Roy Hyatt
After further tests, I have isolated the problem to the "no_def_opts" option of ntfs-3g. For these tests, the NTFS partition is not mentioned in /etc/fstab. The mount point for the NFTS partition is an empty directory /net/win owned by root with permissions rwxrwxrwx With this setup, if I log i

[Bug 1194225] [NEW] Can't set current working directory into ntfs mounted directory.

2013-06-24 Thread Eric Roy Hyatt
Public bug reported: My Xubuntu installation has an ext4 partition mounted at / and an ntfs partition mounted at /path When I "cd /path" either as a user or as root, the system responds "/path: Operation not permitted", and my current working directory does not change.I expected to get no e