X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:17:37 +1000 From: "nano thief" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin on usb problems In-Reply-To: <467EB1BF.374723E1@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <11273769.post@talk.nabble.com> <467EB1BF.374723E1@dessent.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 6/25/07, Brian Dessent wrote: > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > > The last solution I could think of was removing the umask 022 command from > > > the /etc/profile. This (I think) would have the effect of making all new > > > created files having 777 or 666 permissions. However, does this affect files > > > created from scripts or other programs? Or is there another solution to my > > > problem that I haven't thought of? > > > > Yeah, switch back to FAT. I had the same issue. NTFS without > > permissions is senseless. > > It's not senseless. Even without permissions, NTFS has a lot more going > for it than FAT, such as compression, hard links, non-insane timestamp > accuracy, largefile support, ... Yes, I was using it for the file compression. With my install of cygwin, it almost halved the installation size, which is very useful when you have a ton of programs on your usb and only 4gb to play with... > > To the OP, I think you're looking for CYGWIN=nontsec. > Thanks that worked great! The only problem I had after that was that existing NTFS permissions were still there, i.e opening a folder using explorer would be refused when on a wrong computer. I fixed that by moving all my files onto a fat partition, then back to my ntfs partition. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/