Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

[John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>]

Brad writes:
> IIRC, this is incorrect. The owner/group of the filesystem is by default
> set to the uid and gid of the mounting process (e.g. if you mount as
> root.root, the owner/group will be root.root no matter what the ownership
> of the mountpoint). The permissions are determined by the umask of the
> mounting process.

You are right.  I was going by my evidently defective memory: I don't have
Windows.  However, there are options to set the uid, gid, and umask.

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