Re: Having filesystems mounted with the user option be owned by the user that mounts them?
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 01:37:07PM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> I was hoping that if I used "user" (or "users") in the mount command (or in
> /etc/fstab) that the mounted filesystem would be owned by the user that mounted
> it. That doesn't (seem to) work.
It's not supposed to. The "user" option in fstab simply allows a
non-root user to mount the file system. It doesn't change the *contents*
of the file system.
user allow a user to mount
If you want to perform a file owner transformation on the contents of
the file system, then you need FS-specific options. It really only
makes sense for FAT or NTFS file systems that don't have Unix owners
at all, so an owner transformation is *always* being performed.
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