[Bug 1194225] Re: Can't set current working directory into ntfs mounted directory.

[Eric Roy Hyatt]

Repeating my tests, I agree with Jean-Pierre: the system response is "Operation not supported" not "Operation not permitted".  I wrote my report of 16 October from handwritten notes--I conclude that I transcribed the system response incorrectly.
Thanks you Mr. Andre for your suggestions regarding "silent" or "uid=0".  Both allowed me past the roadblock I had described.

I conclude that most of my problem arose because I did not understand
the documentation.

I am now mounting the partition in question with "permissions", which I
understand defines standard permissions for the contents of the
partition.  If this is true, the documentation would be clearer if it
explicitly said something like "standard permissions are not defined
unless ..."  Further, the part of the documentation that says "ACCESS
HANDLING AND SECURITY/Be default, files and directories are owned by ...
and everybody has full read, write, execution and directory browsing
permissions." is at best deceptive, at worst completely untrue.  Some of
Jean-Pierre's previous comments to should be added to the documentation
to improve it.

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Title:
  Can't set current working directory into ntfs mounted directory.

Status in “ntfs-3g” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  My Xubuntu installation has an ext4 partition mounted at / and an ntfs
  partition mounted at /path

  When I "cd /path" either as a user or as root, the system responds
  "/path:  Operation not permitted", and my current working directory does not change.    I expected to get no error message and for the current working directory to be changed to "/path".

  The critical line in /etc/fstab is
  "/path  ntfs-3g no_def_opts,allow_other  0 2"

  My guess is that this is a bug in ntfs-3g, since I have had other
  linux machines (Fedora and Debian) with the same arrangement of
  partitions.  On these other machines I have been able to set my
  current working directory to a directory in the NTFS partition.

  Xubuntu 13.04
  Package ntfs-3g 1:2013.1.13-1+0ubuntu2 0

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: ntfs-3g 1:2013.1.13-1+0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-25.37-generic 3.8.13
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-25-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Jun 24 10:31:10 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-17 (38 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: ntfs-3g
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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