File Ownership Problem on Dual Boot PC - RESOLVED

[n8oay]

OK, this appears to me to be not good. I just rebooted as user. I can read and write to folders, but looking at permissions in Dolphin still shows the owner and group both being root. Did some of the above changes give root read/write access to users? My other computer shows the user when checking permissions in Dolphin.

[AS]

OK, this appears to me to be not good. I just rebooted as user. I can read and write to folders, but looking at permissions in Dolphin still shows the owner and group both being root. Did some of the above changes give root read/write access to users? My other computer shows the user when checking permissions in Dolphin.

Why do you think that a MS Windows file system (FAT32) understand concepts like user and groups ?

Things are a little different for NTFS, which under Windows can map it's own users as file owners, but when you mount it on a Linux system things changes and ownership will be attributed to the user I asked you to put in /etc/fstab.

[Old-Polack]

n8oay:

If you really think you need to see your user name as the owner, (really makes no difference) add uid=500,gid=500 to the entries in your fstab. This assumes your uid and gid are, in fact, 500. If not, then use the correct uid and gid for your normal user.

Example:

UUID=78AD-1679 /home/n8oay/disks/D vfat rw,uid=500,gid=500,umask=000 0 0

[n8oay]

I understand the issues using vfat and ntfs partitions with Linux. The changes I made above resolved the problem I had of not being able to write to my data partitions. I just needed one more reboot that I failed to do when I should have. I am confused however, with the fact that with PCLOS I see the owner and group as root but the previous Xandros installation showed the owner and group as the user on the data partitions.

[n8oay]

n8oay:

If you really think you need to see your user name as the owner, (really makes no difference) add uid=500,gid=500 to the entries in your fstab. This assumes your uid and gid are, in fact, 500. If not, then use the correct uid and gid for your normal user.

Example:

UUID=78AD-1679 /home/n8oay/disks/D vfat rw,uid=500,gid=500,umask=000 0 0

Now that I understand the way PCLOS displays the permissions, I am not going to worry about it. I can now write to the data partitions which I could not do when I started out today.