Re: Permissions on a shared drive in dual boot setup

[Henrik Frisk]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com
>  wrote: 
>  On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 12:43 +0100, Henrik Frisk wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I have a MBP with a ssd that hosts Fedora 20 and OSx Mavericks in a dual
>  > boot setup. In the laptop I also have a 500GB internal drive on which I
>  > currently have my OSX Home directory. I have this drive (HFS+) mounted
>  r/w
>  > in Linux, but, as perhaps expected, there are a lot of issues with
>  > permissions (files and directories in my OSX Home directory that i can't
>  > access except if I copy them as root).
>  >
>  > Is there a way that I can with this disk in Fedora, opening files and
>  > writing files to it that I later can access in OSX as a regular user
>  > similar to how I can move a USB drive from one computer to another
>  without
>  > getting issues with permissions? Or is it not advisable to do what I'm
>  > trying to do? I have to admit that I haven't tried changing permissions
>  on
>  > the existing files on the drive but I suspect that would make them
>  > inaccessible in OSX...
>  >
>  > Please note that I have no problem mounting the disk as rw, only
>  accessing
>  > the files that are already there.
>
>  The reason it's easy with a USB drive is that most of these are
>  formatted as VFAT, which has no concept of file ownership.
>
>  The simplest solution is to make your user ids compatible between the
>  two systems (I mean their actual numerical values as recorded
>  in /etc/passwd).
>  
Alright. I thought I had done that, but I must have missed something.
Thanks!