Re: Mount permissions weired

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Hans wrote: 
> > You have to chown/chmod the mount point *after* the drive is mounted. If
> > you do it before the drive is mounted it won't have any effect on the
> > mounted drive. (As you can see.) I really am not sure what else to say,
> > this is how it works.
> 
> Ok, I did as adviced. Changed permissions and ownerships after mount, then 
> rebooted and it loks like it worked.
> 
> Just for understanding: What does this procedure affect? Does ist set the 
> ownerships to this device or does it somehow let the kernel remember or is 
> this owneship stored somewher else?

Owners, groups and permissions are stored as numbers on each
filesystem.

Translation of numbers to names for owners and groups is done by
the running kernel by consulting /etc/passwd and /etc/group, or
on some systems other directories like LDAP.

-dsr-