rpjday wrote:
> 
>   the man page for the "mount" command says nothing about
> the "owner" option, which shows up in /etc/fstab for, in
> my case, /dev/cdrom and /dev/fd0.
> 
>   what does this mean?  originally, i thought it meant that
> the files under that mount would be effectively owned by
> the person who did the mount, but this is clearly not true.
> 
>   what does it mean, and why is it kept such a secret?
> 
> rday
> 

I believe it is similar to the 'user' option except that the
user must be the owner of the device in order to mount it.

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