On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 14:23:13 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > [2] With Windows filesystem, there are mount options to set the >> > default ownership, but that is a workaround for the differences >> > between Linux and Windows metadata. > >> Thanks Neil. I guess that unless we figure out Canek's uid/gid options >> I'll stick with chown, etc. > > The uid and gid options don't apply to ext? filesystems. Have another > look at the man page and you'll see they are only listed for some > non-Linux filesystems, in order to make them compatible with Linux > ownerships and permissions. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > God: What one human uses to persecute another.
Apparently Canek & I do need to read more carefully. I just zoomed in on the gid stuff from searching. I should have read the whole area. Thanks OK, so mounting the drive and chown-ing as root is indeed the right way to go. Thanks, Mark
