On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Are you talking about the ownership of the root directory on the mounted > file system? That's stored in the directory's inode, just as with any > other directory. With the file system mounted, use 'chown' (as root) to > change that ownership to anything you want. Note that it's only the > numeric UID and GID that are stored. If you're moving that drive among > systems with different UID/GID->name mappings, you'll see different user > names as the owner. I was talking about the top level directory on the partitions of the external drive. I couldn't write to it as the regular user. Following Ed's trick to chown the first time retains it for subsequent mounts on different systems. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
