On 09/01/2014 07:04 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
I haven't had time to look into it myself but more I read about ext4 your tryst explaining me earlier becomes more clear that permissions persist with the filesystem. Now that I think more about it one possibility is that I use same username across systems which might have made it possible to mount with RW without superuser privileges.
My understanding is that the numerical UID and GID are what matters; the names are just there for convenience.