Richard Owlett: > On 10/25/2016 10:40 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> The simplest way would be to synchronize your UID across all your >> installed operating systems. If your UID is, let's say, 1000 on every >> system, and the files on the partition are owned by user 1000, then >> user 1000 (you) will have ownership of the files whenever you mount >> the partition. > > That sounds like what I want. > I had previously created a ext2 partition on /dev/sda10 and a label of > jessie-dvds . > How do I inform the "WORLD" that it belongs to UID 1000?
chown -R 1000 /
But that is a stupid idea that will probably break your system. Don't do
it.
As far as I understand, you want to be able to read/write/execute files
from one installation in another installation. This is easy as long as
you use the root account. For your regular user (usually UID 1000), this
doesn't make sense on a single installation and doesn't make sense
across several installations on one computer.
> Right now when I attempt to mount it, I am asked for root password.
> Not acceptable.
What a user can mount is controlled by the option "user" in /etc/fstab.
Even if a user can mount a filesystem that doesn't mean she can read or
write any files in it after mounting. That is controlled by the
permissions in the filesystem.
> tomas' reply confused me ;/
I think that is because you have a misunderstanding that makes you want
to solve your problem the wrong way. Maybe it helps to restate what
exactly you want to do.
If all you want is to exchange a few files (office documents, music,
videos etc.) between separate OS installations the easiest way is to
format one partition as FAT filesystem. That way you won't have to worry
about permissions.
J.
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