[NCLUG] Partition ownership

[John Gilmore]

Only if it's a vfat filesystem, or something else that doesn't store
ownership information.

Then you can add a option to specify the user/group ID's uid=1000,gid=1000
I think. Check the vfat man page for details.

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Kerry Miller <n0wiq at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi People,
>
> I have known about chown for years I was hoping there was something I
> could put in to fstab to make this a one step adjustment.
>
> Kerry N0WIQ
> My web site URL is:
> http://mywebpages.comcast.net/n0wiq
>
>
> On 10/19/2012 02:54 PM, Aaron D. Johnson wrote:
> > In message<5081AF1E.6010306 at comcast.net>, N0WIQ writes:
> >> I have re-installed Fedora 17 on my quad core AMD laptop.  I have added
> >> to /etc/fstab:
> >> LABEL=Downloads        /home/kerrym2/Downloads        auto
> >> defaults,user    0 0
> >>
> >> This doese NOT give my user write privileges to the partition. how do I
> >> change this to give write privileges to the user?
> > After you have it mounted:
> >
> >    sudo chown kerrym2 /home/kerrym2/Download
> >
> > And then, as kerrym2, you can set the permissions using chmod (you'll
> > want something like "chmod u+w /home/kerrym2/Download").  I'll let the
> > Fedorans chime in about any SELinux labeling that might be needed.
> >
> > - Aaron
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