On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Robert Nichols rnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.net wrote:
Are you talking about the ownership of the root directory on the mounted file system? That's stored in the directory's inode, just as with any other directory. With the file system mounted, use 'chown' (as root) to change that ownership to anything you want. Note that it's only the numeric UID and GID that are stored. If you're moving that drive among systems with different UID/GID->name mappings, you'll see different user names as the owner.
I was talking about the top level directory on the partitions of the external drive. I couldn't write to it as the regular user. Following Ed's trick to chown the first time retains it for subsequent mounts on different systems.