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NTFS directory coloring

Hi I am trying to find how to change the green highlight that appears on NTFS file directories. It is very hard to read because the text is blue.

I tried suggested here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=764824

to use 01;34 for STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE and OTHER_WRITABLE

But nothing has changed.

I saved the file as .mydircolors in home directory and then I couldn't find .bashrc in home directory (not sure why) so I edited the one in /etc/bash.bashrc That was the closest I could find.

But the lines he said to change are a little different.
I tried them to:

Code:

 if type -P dircolors >/dev/null ; then

                if [[ -f ~/.dir_colors ]] ; then

                        eval $(dircolors ~/-mydircolors)

                elif [[ -f /etc/DIR_COLORS ]] ; then

                        eval $(dircolors ~/.mydircolors)

                fi

        fi

But nothing was changed when I logged off and logged back on.

I found this thread which addresses the same question. The respondent claims it's a matter of how the NTFS partition is mounted.

Quote:

You can use the fmask and dmask mount options to control the default file and directory permissions which is used to get the color for 'ls'. See the ntfs-3g manual for more details (e.g. type 'man ntfs-3g' on a terminal).

Alternatively use the NTFS-3G driver with full permission and ownership support which should always show the correct color: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/b.andre/security.html

I don't know one way or the other, since Debian uses a slightly different way of setting directory colors.