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gnome-mount package

  1. Bug #78505
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 78505

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Rebecca Palmer (rebecca-palmer) wrote : Re: NTFS and FAT partitions mounted with executable bits

It seems that you can't actually execute anything from an NTFS partition anyway (though you can from vfat): clicking on a program in Nautilus silently fails, while the command line says it can't find it (amd64 gutsy):

$ ls -l
...
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 188797 2007-03-16 16:15 rebecca
...
$ ./rebecca
bash: ./rebecca: No such file or directory

('rebecca' is a program I wrote, which lived in my Windows partition as it also has a Windows version compiled from the same source; it ran fine from there on my old Win98(vfat)/Ubuntu machine.)

While probably a bug in itself, this does mean that the above fix for the "executable text file" message (which I agree is annoying, and far more likely to be encountered by less knowledgeable users) wouldn't actually change anything on NTFS.

PS. I think you do mean dmask=000,fmask=111. dmask=222,fmask=333 appears to forbid writing to that partition.