kdg suggestions for Partitions and Booting section

[Rocco Stanzione]

On Monday 03 April 2006 21:17, FrankBob Holly wrote:
> I've been trying to test kubuntu dapper from a new user's perspective.
>
> I have a few suggestions about the Partitions and Booting section of the
> kubuntu desktop guide.
>
> I found that kubuntu automatically mounts my vfat and ntfs partitions but
> doesn't give my user access to them. Specifically vfat gets read access
> only and ntfs has no read access at all.

This is true up until very recently - possibly even up until now in uploaded 
packages, but the released version of Dapper will mount win32 partitions as 
the plugdev group, of which the first user is a member, with a umask of 007.  
So, the first user should have full permissions to these filesystems.

> The Mount/unmount Windows partitions (on boot up)  sections should show how
> to handle the partitions using the Disk & Filesystems module of
> system-settings. In particular, it should show how to modify the mount
> options so that users can access ntfs and vfat partitions.

This isn't a bad idea if it doesn't already cover that.

> The mount points should be in /media instead of /mnt

This is a matter of opinion, of course.  If you would like to see it changed, 
please file a bug.

> To change the mount options:
> click partition->Modify->Advanced->options-> Replace defaults by:
>
> ro,umask=0222 should replace defaults for ntfs partition
> umask=0000 should replace defaults for vfat partition

This is covered (with different but acceptable umasks) for the released 
version of Dapper.

> Isn't there a script somewhere in the wiki that can setup the fstab like
> this as well? Not sure if it would be appropriate the kdg though.

I'm not aware of any interactive features like this on the wiki.

Thanks for your comments.  Any further input will be appreciated as well.

Rocco Stanzione