Maybe I wasn't clear, forget the /home directory. If the problem is that on Ubuntu you can't access files created with another linux system, because there are different uid, I think that a good solution could be create Ubuntu user with the same uid of the old linux system (see directories in /home is just a way to achieve it. Another way, in case the partition you have indicated as / contain an etc directory, is to look users in /etc/passwd). That way Ubuntu users will access their files on /media or somewhere else as they where used before. But this is not always possible. When you can't I have proposed to chown old files. I.e. if you have a disk that you want mount in /media/video, Ubiquity could look its content. If it finds some files or directories that belongs to non-system uid it should ask you how to handle them (maybe chown to new users with the "merge" function I mentionded, 500->1000, 501->1001).
Whereas I can't understand how you would use umask. Umask command changes default permissions on new files, while umask mount option doesn't apply to ext[2-4] or other linux filesystems. I think it doesn't solve the problem you are pointing out. -- chown all local drives to current user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/388943 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
