On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:14:19AM -0700, Carlos F. Lange wrote: > On Fri January 4 2008 01:48:28 Rasmus Plewe wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:37:43AM +0100, jdd wrote: > > > Carlos F. Lange a écrit : > > >> Can I set something on my USB ext2 partition to tell Hal to > > >> automount it as owned by the user? > > > > > > problem is only if you want to ba able to use this key with others > > > computer. > > > > > > If so: > > > > > > * you can't know what UID/GID is used (AFAIK only UID/GID are > > > stored in the file system) > > > * only the "onboard" modification will be ported with you :-( > > > > > > so, for true protability, better stick to fat32 :-( > > > > Actually, something like > > chmod 777 dir > > should give everyone, regardless of their UID/GID, read- and write > > access. > > The point here is that the permissions for the ext2 partition are set by > the automounter in the host machine. I only can set permissions of > directories and files in the partition.
That is correct. I was referring to the workaround of creating a directory in the ext2 partition that then contains the data. For the mount point itself I think you don't have any options that work across different machines. Rasmus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
