vfat support behaves differently than with pmount

[Mikael Nilsson]

Binary package hint: gnome-mount

I used to be able to rsync music to my USB mp3 player. Now, with gnome-mount, I have three problems:

1. Case - Directories named A, B, C etc are always removed and recreated when using rsync (which thinks they are called a, b, c etc.). Fixed by using shortname=mixed

2. Times - rsync complains "failed to set times on "[...]": Operation not permitted (1)". This seems to be caused by the files being owned by root. I think maybe pmount made them owned by me, which makes the above operation succeed.

3. Permissions. The default permissions were fmask=0077, dmask=0077. Coupled with owner=root, this makes the device hard to use.

I fixed 1 and 3 by adding umask=0000,shortname=mixed in the Volume tab in nautilus. But it seems I should *not* have to do this.

[Mikael Nilsson (mini)]

As an additional issue, nautilus complains when I try to unmount it "Cannot remove directory".

The volume *is* unmounted, though, and the relevant /media directory *is* removed.

[Florent Mertens (givre)]

1 : This is understandable since pmount used previously shortname=mixed, and gnome-mount use by default shortname=winnt. In my opinion, the previous policy should not be changed.

2 &3 : This is due to the fact that all default settings are overwrite by the settings you define in the Volume tab in nautilus. The default for vfat is still uid=(user_uid). By removing all options in Volume tab and remounting your usb device, you'll see that.

Conclusion : the default shortname option for vfat should be change from shortname=winnt to shortname=mixed

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 gnome-mount (0.5-2ubuntu5) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/control: Set Ubuntu maintainer (to me).
   * debian/patches/ubuntu-default-mount-options.patch: Use shortname=mixed
     mount option for VFAT to stay compatible with earlier Ubuntu releases.
     (LP: #76200)
   * debian/patches/ubuntu-default-mount-options.patch: Mount with 'exec' by
     default to stay compatible with earlier Ubuntu releases.
     (LP: #87627)
   * debian/patches/ubuntu-default-mount-options.patch: Use 'uid' option by
     default for HFS. (LP: #84044)
   * Add debian/patches/05_ignore_slash_label.patch: If the label is a single
     '/', ignore it, so that it does not end up as /media/_. (LP: #83323)