A bash shell exists on a USB thumb drive. The USB drive is formatted NTFS If mounted with pmount, a few things don't work:
- I cannot run the shell as it has permissions 600
- I cannot change permissions although my ID shows as owner of the file
If the USB drive is mounted via file manager (mine is Thunar - the GUI of XFCE which is the GUI for XUbuntu) or if it's mounted by disks (Which I believe is really gnome-disk).
- No problems running shells - the one I want has permissions 777
- I cannot change permissions but in this instance I don't need to.
Why can't I pmount the drive then run the shell? Probably related, and not as significant - what's with the inability to change permissions?