On 1/16/06, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan Berry wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > Is there a way that I can make files from a read only file system copy > > over as writable? I have an NTFS partition (I think the same thing > > happens with, say, a CD) mounted read only and whenever I copy files > > over from it, they are given permissions that exclude the write bit. > > This is mostly just annoying, but I was wondering if there was some > > way to have it automatically set the user writable bit when copying it > > over. Preferably a mount option so that it just works. Any ideas? > > > > Jonathan > > > > Reading the man page for cp indicates that --no-preserve=mode > might do what you want. > > Mike Hi Mike, Yeah, that could work, but I have to remember to do that (or set an alias or create a script or something) and that only works from the command line. Occasionally, I might want to copy files using nautilus (as I was the other day when this issue came up again), especially if I want to copy a somewhat random selection of files. Jonathan
