Cannot move file to trash, do you want to delete immediately?

watsonsun · 07-07-2009, 11:24 AM

Hi all

I have Rhythmbox Music Player in ubuntu. When I click 'Move to trash' in rhythmbox, the song is not removed from my disk storage. However when I login as root (administrator), it is deleted from my disk. I have searched your forum and followed the suggestion of inserting into my fstab the line as shown below:

/dev/sda3 /media/MainStorage HPFS/NTFS defaults,unmask=007,gid=46,uid=watson 0 0

However after doing this and restarting my computer, the drive fails to mount altogether.

I hope someone can help me cause I am a totally newbee in Ubuntu

Thanks to all
Watson

pljvaldez · 07-07-2009, 12:46 PM

It won't mount because the filesystem type and options are wrong. I assume the drive is a windows drive (NTFS).

Here's a link to the Ubuntu Guide that talks about mounting NTFS drives.

watsonsun · 07-07-2009, 12:50 PM

Thanks for the response.

You are absolutely right. I have changed the script from

/dev/sda3 /media/MainStorage HPFS/NTFS defaults,unmask=007,gid=46,uid=watson 0 0

to

/dev/sda3 /media/MainStorage auto defaults,unmask=007,gid=46,uid=watson 0 0

and it solved my problem.

Thanks

pljvaldez · 07-07-2009, 01:10 PM

I'm not sure "unmask" is an actual option. I think it's supposed to be umask (no N). Basically, umask is the opposite of chmod for permissions. For chmod, a permission of 777 gives read, write, and execute permissions to everyone. umask=000 will give read, write, and execute permissions to everyone.

Just out of curiosity, where did you get the gid=46 from? Usually gid's less than 1000 are system type groups...

watsonsun · 07-07-2009, 01:39 PM

I got this example from this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=900262

I just followed the example for gid=46. Should I change it and if so to what number?

Thanks for pointing the unmask. It should be umask. Didnt realised it when I typed from the example.

Thank again
Watson

pljvaldez · 07-07-2009, 03:12 PM

What is the output of cat /etc/group | grep 46 (you might have to use sudo if it comes back empty)? I'm just not sure you need either a gid or a uid. Typically, I don't put any extraneous things into an fstab entry if they're not needed. So I was just curious what group is assigned to 46.