Read-Only FAT files cannot be made writeable

[Bachsau]

Binary package hint: nautilus

When a File on a FAT filesystem is read-only, it's is read only for owner, group and others in linux. But when I try to use nautilus to change it, it does not work, so I have to go to the terminal, which is getting on my nerves. By the way, I'm using the detailed permission view of nautilus.

The filesystems are mountet with shortname=mixed,codepage=850,utf8,uid=1000,gid=0,umask=0111,dmask=0000

Fix please.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/realplayer
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, that's something to send directly upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org by someone interested on that, for forwarding instructions please read http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME, Thanks in advance.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Bachsau (bachsau)]

lol. Just recreate the situation described and you will reproduce the bug. And no, it's nothing for the wishlist. Its something that doesnt work.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug tracker is not a forum for lol comments, if you want this bug to be useful what about replying to questions?

[Bachsau (bachsau)]

Sorry, I don't know more about this bug than I already posted. Create a FAT32 file system, set a file read-only, mount the file system with the parameters given in my first post (they should be okay I think), and try to set the file writeable with nautilus.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Does changing the umask and dmask values to something less restrictive help you?

[Bachsau (bachsau)]

No. The is already mounted with "uid=1000,umask=0111,dmask=0000", but if a file is set read only in the filesystem, it is also write protected with linux for all users. This especialy happens to the "My Documents" and related Windows-System folders, after Windows has done changes to them. Running "chmod -R a+w" oder "chmod -R 777" on these directorys or just the whole partition always helps, but I would like to see it working with nautilus also.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in karmic or lucid?

[Bachsau (bachsau)]

We'll see. I'm going to upgrade in june.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!