The permissions for the adb script file come up as above, but neither I nor Eclipse can run it without 'Permission denied' errors. I got all the permissions set the way I expect them to, and chown and chmod actually change settings on the files (at least according to ls -l) =DД«UT my system still behaves in a weird way. By mounting with these options nls=iso8859-1,permissions,users,auto Why is the above file, with execute permissions for anyone, still not executable by anyone else than root? How do I change the way I mount the file system so it is? But if I run it with sudo, it works (I believe вЂ“ at least it doesn't give me an error message, but it doesn't give me any output at all, which I think it shouldn'tвЂ¦) adb in a terminal) I also get permission denied errors. ls -l tells me the following about the file: -rwxrwxrwx 1 tomas tomas 159620 14:50 adb* When I start Eclipse, I get an error that a file related to the android-sdk cannot be run: Permission denied. Ls -l now shows all files owned by me instead of by root, and it seems some of the problems I had before are solved. I have now changed the options according to the suggestions, and arrived at this: nls=iso8859-1,permissions,users,umask=000,uid=tomas,gid=tomas Would mounting the partition in my name instead of root help? If so, how do I accomplish that in fstab? Or, similarly mv: preserving permissions for. Also, whenever I try to copy ( cp) or move ( mv) files from one of my ext3 partitions to the NTFS partition, I get error messages saying mv: preserving times for ``: Operation not permitted Most notably, some applicaitons running under my account (called tomas) complain about access rights. However, this causes some problems for me. No matter what I do, ls -l anywhere on the NTFS partition will list every file and folder as owned by root:root. To my Ubuntu 11.10 installation, it looks as if all files and folders are owned by root вЂ“ and since NTFS doesn't really support the same rights management system anyway, there's no way I can change it after the mount is complete. I'm currently mounting an NTFS partition at startup using the following line in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda3 /media/data ntfs nls=iso8859-1,umask=000

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