kdg suggestions for Partitions and Booting section

[Venkat Raghavan]

On Monday 03 April 2006 22:41, Rocco Stanzione wrote:
> 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.
I have no clue about umasks, so if someone tells me what is correct, I'll 
commit those changes. 

> > 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.

+1 

> > 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.
Since everything automounts to /media, i think it might be a better idea to 
use /media instead of /mnt 

> > 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.
See above! 

> > 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.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomaticallyMountPartitions is probably what he 
meant. 

Regards,
Venkat
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