From 1c09012dbcfd01ae813ed4fba4a950c2a45b378d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jean-Pierre=20Andr=C3=A9?= Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:30:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- src/ntfs-3g.8.in | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/ntfs-3g.8.in b/src/ntfs-3g.8.in index 42f2e2b1..b86d3fcd 100644 --- a/src/ntfs-3g.8.in +++ b/src/ntfs-3g.8.in @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ .\" 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.