-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Liam Higgins wrote: > Hello Everyone. > I'm trying to chown a user to be the owner of a directory mounted on an > NTFS volume. The command completes successfully but when I go back to > check if the change was successful the owner and group are still root > with rwxrwxrwx set. Is this a limitation on ntfs-g volumes ? Or is > something wrong with my fstab options?
chown/chmod only applies to POSIX-compatible file systems (ext2, ext3, xfs, jfs, etc). Windows file systems like FAT32 and NTFS don't understand the uid/gid stamp (NTFS uses a different ACL based system internally to deal with permissions). If you want to mount an NTFS partition and have it owned by a certain user/group, pass mount-time options to do so. For example: mount -o uid=username,gid=groupname /dev/sdaX /path/to/mountpoint All options must be comma separated without spaces. You can pass the same options in your fstab in the appropriate column. If there are other options there (say like "defaults"), again comma separate the options with no spaces. "man mount" will give you a list of all the other possible options you can pass at mount time. - -Dan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIVDRmeFJDv0P9Qb8RAqw4AJ9CAjm47j3eYJOQqwUDT0v3iI6t9gCgqCbQ /FbjHNqkDsNFt2OauXKMVF4= =EICq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
