Re: Can't write to ntfs file system

Graham Lawrence wrote:

> I thank you all for your help, but I really can't use your
> recommendations without screwing up something else on my system. I
> have a script which runs automatically on system startup which
> immediately references this ntfs drive, so I must have this drive
> automount on startup like my internal HD, or the script will fail. It
> runs for several hours, during which I can't unmount and remount the
> drive.
>
> The initial mount command assigns the drive to ROOT:ROOT with rwx
> permissions for all users. These cannot be changed with chown, chmod,
> chgrp as explained at
> http://ubuntu.swerdna.org/ubuntfs.html
> As this is an ubuntu site this behavior is not specific to my distro,
> slackware. I assume it is standard behavior for the kernel, ntfs-3g
> and the core utilities.
>
> I appreciate that one can get vim to write to this drive by having it
> use a different linux command to do so, and am already doing that.
> But I often forget to use it because my vim shutdown script
> automatically writes out any altered buffers; but then it fails if it
> tries to write to this ntfs drive. The only feasible solution for me
> is to elaborate my shutdown script to choose the appropriate write
> procedure for each buffer.
>
> I think this is a bug in vim. The ownership of the file should not be
> an issue, only the permissions, which are as they should be. This is
> the standard adhered to by all other apps except, as far as I know,
> only vim.

One suggestion I haven't heard yet: Try changing the 'backupcopy'
setting.

Vim has some protection against doing bad things with root permission,
that might interfere with what you are doing.

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