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2011-07-18 , 15:49
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Originally Posted by Keneraali View Post
But now when I connect the phone to my Ubuntu pc I don't have any permissions to the files inside. I tried to "sudo chmod -R (myusername)" the folders but it wasn't successful, I'm a noob with permission settings. Should I revert back to vfat or is there anything I can do?
This is why ext3 is a poor choice for a large % of users, it lacks the ability to not care about ownership.

Unless your linux desktop user id and your maemo user id are numerically equal, you're going to keep running into ownership problems. Files that you write while connected via USB aren't going to be visible and/or writable to maemo applications, and vice versa.

You can get around this by transferring everything via wireless ssh, but it's much slower than connecting directly.

My Linux PC and my Linux phone talk via FAT32. Sucks doesn't it.