Suppressing “Could not change permissions” message after copying a file to NTFS Partition in Linux

Question

If I try to copy a file onto a NTFS partition in Linux, I get a warning message Could not change permissions for <file-name>. Is there any way to suppress this message ? I can live with this message while I copy the files in terminal, but when transferring from Dolphin a modal dialog box is shown and it gets pretty irritating.

I'm using openSUSE 11.2, on KDE 4.4 RC.

Answer 1

Try using the silent option in the /etc/fstab for the partition you are trying to copy to.

For more information on how to use silent have a look at http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsmount.8.html

Answer 2

edit fstab and change this portion of the windows line:

user,users,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002,umask=002,locale=en_US.UTF-8

to this

defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8

http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/434289-permission-error-when-writing-ntfs-dolphin.html

Answer 3

Change the line:

/dev/sda6      /mnt/sda6       ntfs-3g defaults,silent,locale=en_US.utf8,auto,rw,allow_other,umask=000,gid=users,user,nls=utf8,exe 1     0

to

/dev/sda6       /mnt/sda6       ntfs-3g         defaults,locale=en_US.utf8      1       0*

No more dolphin messages! Vector Linux 6.0 SoHo.