[Novalug] permissions on non linux filesystem problem

Kevin Cole dc.loco at gmail.com
Fri Jul 6 10:24:16 EDT 2007


> As with Windoze partitions, affs partitions accept a few more fun
> options.  From the mount man page:
>
> Mount options for affs
>        uid=value and gid=value
>               Set  the  owner  and  group of the root of the file
> system (default: uid=gid=0, but with option uid or gid without
> specified value, the uid and gid of the current process are taken).
>
>        setuid=value and setgid=value
>               Set the owner and group of all files.
>
> So, find out your uid and gid (look in /etc/passwd and /etc/group) and change
> your fstab line to
>
> /dev/hdb1 /home/bdz/Desktop/Amiga... afs user,auto,uid=???,gid=??? 0 0

P.S. it might need the setuid and setgid {in addition | in place of}
the uid and gid.

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