[Voyage-linux] Problem mounting USB HDD

[Gustin Johnson]

Possibly.  Check the man pages are there is some great info in there
regarding mapping permissions (look for the part that has this: "... uid
and/or the gid options together with the umask, or fmask and dmask
options").

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Protech Caribsurf
<protech at caribsurf.com>wrote:

> Kevin - yes, no problem with detaching to add music; I was not sure whether
> mounting read-only was contributing to the problem. It apparently is not so
> no issue there. Once chkdsk is run with the drive attached to a Windows
> machine it mounts with no errors and mounts as rw. Unfortunately, whether
> mounted read-only or rw, it still does not list songs after 'mpc update'
> even after allowing the full range of permissions under both the security
> and sharing tabs in Windows.  Even tried putting some songs in the root
> directory as against the artist directories, no luck reading them either.
>
> Would ntfs-3g be any different to what's on the standard package, does
> anyone know??
>
> Derek
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Wang [mailto:kjw at pocketeer.rightsock.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 11:31 AM
> To: Protech Caribsurf
> Cc: 'Gustin Johnson'; 'Kim-man 'Punky' TSE'; voyage-linux at voyage.hk;
> 'Kevin
> Wang'
> Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] Problem mounting USB HDD
>
>  From Protech Caribsurf
> > Pity about NTFS being such a problem with Linux seeing as most
> > external USB drives are formatted that way.
>
> Microsoft doesn't make the spec available.  That's why there's no rw
> support.
>
> Since it's just music, why not just mount it read-only?  detach to load
> more
> music on it, then reattach to play.
>
>   - Kevin
>
>
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