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Date:      Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:39:09 -0500
From:      Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Shared Partitions?
Message-ID:  <20040627133909.53152dbf@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net>
In-Reply-To: <000001c45b97$725b6c80$6601a8c0@home>
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:05:48 -0400
"Thomas Moyer" <tommoyer@atlanticbb.net> wrote:

> I have a Fat32 partition that I use to share files between Windows
> and FreeBSD.  I have it mounted on /home and when it mounts the
> owner of all the files is root and the group is wheel.  Is there a
> way to change that so it acts like a normal home partition? In other
> words the individual directories and files are owned by the user
> etc.

Since FAT has no ability to permissions, it has to be mount as
something... it defualts to root... check out the -g and -u switches
for mount...



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