SVN error on NTFS partition from Linux
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pteri498
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 Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:22 pm Post subject: SVN error on NTFS partition from Linux |
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On my Ubuntu system, I tried doing an svn checkout from a directory onto an ntfs partition and get the following error:
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$ svn co svn+ssh://path/to/project project
user@path's password:
svn: Can't set permissions on 'project/.svn/tempfile.2.tmp': Operation not permitted
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I realize that there's no permission setting on an ntfs partition, but how do I make subversion not care about this?
For the record:
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$ svn --version
svn, version 1.6.5 (r38866)
compiled Aug 31 2009, 18:42:02
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ONTO an ntfs partition, for clarity. The destination folder is ntfs. |
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andyl
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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You can't. Subversion (or more likely, APR) doesn't know that it's looking at NTFS, only that it's on a Linux system, so it's trying to do all the normal Linux-y things.
Perhaps the software you use to mount NTFS read/write needs to be more accommodating of setting permissions "the *NIX" way - or at all.
But a better solution would be not sharing your working copy between OSes, which is the only reason I can see for someone trying to use NTFS from Linux in this situation. |
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pteri498
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, thanks for that advice. I checked my /etc/fstab and noticed that the partition was being mounted with a umask=007 (effectively blocking out anyone but owner and group), so I changed that to 000 and subversion no longer complains about permissions because it has every one of them to begin with. |
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pteri498
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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Better solution:
I noted the ownership of the files, which was root.
In /etc/fstab, I now have the following settings:
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UUID=3277CD9B4136F0DC /media/win7 ntfs defaults,umask=022,uid=1000 0 0
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Note my umask is 022, meaning effective permissions of 755 (rwxr-xr-x), which are pretty decent permissions. My user's uid is 1000, so I set ownership of the partition mount as that. Now my personal permissiions are rwx, so I get full permissions, and I can modify other permissions as I wish.
I think this is a cleaner solution and allows me more freedom in setting permissions for others. |
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