From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SHMcz-0001bE-6T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:00:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B9F8E0C0D; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:59:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF1AE0B48 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:58:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcge1 with SMTP id e1so2640392vcg.40 for ; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:58:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=dgK86oFOzu+6fFDivatco5PDGl08qGTK/I7EgNg26tg=; b=m0xEkoLkklR552ejwARdWD6T+KP2khFNqC9Fivq6RYbj42HUnAFRznyOR4qKvxcytQ uqR1qs5xrmtDzDRQK+G/XO0tULzsIthqG6bbQC63Ama0MxkMTXXOGzYo8y8HXQB1aRLM 2cPitnoBd9/UinUkWeIaT35pWXUhI0W0facwq185+kIFZsjC76TM5pM34ChImafMP9Oc azMzhtVyHV8l6PU33E7zWVPs3wM06XOYQWmFfVs3JDmzZoPhbluf/krwkX1b3J1JI4XC hywxw6UFrHRRMRm4OYYlAb1y4sreMgfK8E9egIknpGCcvWMWSaAtgfqyKVnnFfWebqJU OtVw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.144.203 with SMTP id a11mr4425428vcv.32.1334008695669; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:58:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.193.8 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 14:58:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120409223906.38d79d14@digimed.co.uk> References: <20120409214802.0dd0ab43@digimed.co.uk> <20120409223906.38d79d14@digimed.co.uk> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 14:58:15 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] User can mount/umount but not write to top the new drive From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: a4e9a841-fd83-4f52-b821-10e787624b43 X-Archives-Hash: 93540ec891ad81b118a7fdda65ea174d On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Neil Bothwick 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