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October 30, 2011 04:38 PM

Categories: Pogoplug Drive (Linux)

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Hi all

I am having problems with file permissions on my Pogoplug.  I have copied a number of files across which for me have rwx (read, write and execute) file permissions.  Strangely when copied to the plug the files have lost the executable permission.

Doing either

chmod 700 filename

or

sudo chmod 700 filename

does not bring back the executable permissions.

Does any one have any idea why this is?  Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

For information I have a v1 pogoplug (pink and white EO2 with 4 USBs).  One of these USBs has a Western Digital drive attached and I'm running Linux accessing the drive with pogoplugfs.  I have a mount point setup /media/pogoplug which is owned by me and in my group.

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October 31, 2011 10:56 PM

Just do chmod +rx on the pogoplugfs and report back

Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!

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November 1, 2011 4:23 PM

Madd the Sane said: Just do chmod +rx on the pogoplugfs and report back

Hi Madd the Sane.  Thanks for taking the time to reply.  The file pogoplugfs in my homefolder already has permission to read and execute.  I have chmoded as you suggest and still no luck.

I can mount the drive and see my files I uploaded.  The have simply lost their original permissions and are all -rw-rw-r-- owned by me and in the user (me) group.

Chmoding files on the Pogoplug ie by going to the mount point appears to do nothing.

I'm confused.  If this persists it makes it a bit useless as a backup if I have to write a script to log the permissions of all files copied to the Pogoplug and reapply them when copied back.

Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong or why this is correct (if it is) would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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November 21, 2011 6:43 AM

Hello, I have been playing with Linux for years, but still really don't know very much. The following suggestion is one which came out of struggling with my other NAS. I would think that it would apply equally to the pogoplug since both use USB HDs. What I discovered was if the pogoplug drive is NTFS formatted, or other non-native linux type formats, the permissions probably will not be carried with the file as the file system does not accommodate them. The work around is to compress the file before copying or use something like DejaDup as a backup tool which compresses the files before saving. I formatted my USB drive to a linux type EXT4 and therefore would avoid this problem.

Don

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