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Improved the description of the silent option in the manual 

The silent option acts on chown and chown, but also on permission checking,
and when the option is disabled, permission checking errors may emerge.
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Jean-Pierre André 2014-03-11 09:30:18 +01:00
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.\" Copyright (c) 2005-2006 Yura Pakhuchiy.
.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Richard Russon.
.\" Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Szabolcs Szakacsits.
.\" Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Jean-Pierre Andre
.\" Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Jean-Pierre Andre
.\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
.\"
.TH NTFS-3G 8 "May 2012" "ntfs-3g @VERSION@"
.TH NTFS-3G 8 "Mar 2014" "ntfs-3g @VERSION@"
.SH NAME
ntfs-3g \- Third Generation Read/Write NTFS Driver
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -267,12 +267,15 @@ The default is infinite. Note that the size of read requests is
limited anyway to 32 pages (which is 128kbyte on i386).
.TP
.B silent
Do nothing, without returning any error, on chmod and chown operations,
Do nothing, without returning any error, on chmod and chown operations
and on permission checking errors,
when the \fBpermissions\fR option is not set and no user mapping file
is defined. This option is on by default.
is defined. This option is on by default, and when set off (through option
\fBno_def_opts\fR) ownership and permissions parameters have to be set.
.TP
.B no_def_opts
By default ntfs-3g acts as if "silent" (ignore errors on chmod and chown),
By default ntfs-3g acts as if "silent" (ignore permission errors when
permissions are not enabled),
"allow_other" (allow any user to access files) and "nonempty"
(allow mounting on non-empty directories) were set, and "no_def_opts"
cancels these default options.