Re: File ownership problem using removeable media

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Le 23/12/2018 à 13:51, Richard Owlett a écrit :
> I use USB drives to transfer files between systems (sneakernet).
> All systems have only one user(richard). It was created during 
> installation.
>
> The drives are either ext2 or ext4 formatted.
> All files were in /user/richard on source machine
>
> They _often_ [but not always] are seen as owned by 'root', not 
> 'richard', by the destination system.
>
> Why? I assume it is me in some manner.

Because you created them as root.

> What do I have to do to guarantee absolutely that any file/directory 
> from /home/richard is seen by destination system as owned by 'richard'?

1) Create files on the USB drive as user richard.
2) Use the same UID for user richard on source and destination systems.