[Bug 660612] Re: please enable override for .sh files to be executable on NTFS and vfat partitions

[Rolf Leggewie]

what's wrong with executing the file from the command line?  You can
always do "sh yourscript.sh"

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Title:
  please enable override for .sh files to be executable on NTFS and vfat
  partitions

Status in udisks package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  In udisks changelog says:

  "udisks (1.0.1+git20100614-1) unstable; urgency=low

    * Upgrade to current git HEAD:
      - [...]
      - Do not have files executable on NTFS."

  I have a 16Gb pendrive partitioned with ntfs which I use to carry my
  development environment as I switch from one computer to another, and
  I have it with ntfs because I need to move large files. I have Ubuntu
  10.10 maverick installed and updated and udisks 1.0.1+git20100614-3.

  The problem comes when I try to run a .sh script to launch the
  development environment on linux. I can't do it because the excecution
  bit isn't set anymore on ntfs. So now I have to copy my entire
  environment to my home, change the excecution bit, and only then I'm
  able to run it. It's annoying. I don't want to have it duplicated on
  every computer I use, and I need the filesystem formatted with ntfs to
  interface with windows computers and to carry large files.

  Please can someone fix or rollback this?

  Or at least can anyone give me a hint on what should I do to rollback
  this behavior on my system?

  Thanks,

  Mariano.

  Edit: I've read
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/14335 and I know
  that this was a decision taked to improve the desktop, but actually in
  the case of ntfs it's better to let it as it was. Unless Nautilus
  could read the extensions or the content to decide if it's excecutable
  or not. For now that it doesn't, just let them all excecutable please.

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