Strange mounting issue with ext3

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Tue Apr 7 04:50:23 PDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Roderich Schupp
<roderich.schupp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org> wrote:
>> The proper solution is to make the root of the filesystem owned and/or
>> writable by your user of choice. This is the part you should do after
> What is needed here is a new mount option: "forget about the
> uids on the drive, just pretend any file is owned by the mounting user".

Which can be translated as "just unscrew any disk, put it into a cheap
USB sleeve et voila, readable root files with no unix knowledge!"

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki


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