Re: Mounting and writing to second hard drive...

[Nick Leverton <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <W3ekk.415$hR4.241@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Will Kemp  <will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Unruh wrote:
> 
>> Note that if the partition is a FAT partition, it knowns nothing about
>> usernames, and you cannot chown anything. 
>
>You *can* change the ownership of the directory it's mounted on though.

It's true FAT and VFAT know nothing about usernames and all files on
the partition will (appear to) be owned by the same user.  By default
they take the username of the user who mounts it.  In most usages this
will be root, but hal-based automounters may set it to be the current
desktop user.

But you can specify which username to use with "mount -o uid=whoever
/dev/whatever /whereever".

Nick
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