[Bug 69184] gedit error "Could not create a backup file" when trying to save a file in a VFAT partition

[Ari]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gedit

I have an edgy (final) fresh install. It detected and mounts on boot my
FAT32 drive that I share with windows.

I can create and delete files in this partition with no problems with
all applications including gedit itself.

The problem is, when I try to save the new file again (or to save a file
just opened and modified), gedit always gives me an error message:

Could not create a backup file while saving
/home/ariel/Desktop/MyFolder/mynewtextfile.txt

It looks like the backup filename has something in it that is not
supported in a vfat partition, or there is some problem with the way
ubuntu sets the default permissions

In any case, this is annoying. It happened to me previously with Dapper
in another machine. Hopefully this can get fixed soon!


Note: being a vfat partition, the user:group is set now set to root:root (initially, the group was plugdev but I changed that to see if it fixed my problem; it didn't help at all).

My current fstab entry is:

UUID=d5628904-b3cf-4aaa-ae5b-5adb62952fbd 
/media/sda6     vfat    iocharset=utf8,umask=000,user        0       0

** Affects: gedit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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gedit error "Could not create a backup file" when trying to save a file in a VFAT partition
https://launchpad.net/bugs/69184