HD permissions stay put

[Petrus de Calguarium]

Johan Scheepers wrote:

> I have a multiple boot internal drive (different linux
> flavors)(excluding windows).
> 
> Have a external usb drive for backup between these different systems.
> 
> Now booting in a different flavor the permissions change to numbers.
> 
> My normal permission is johan johan. I am the only user at home.

I had that, too, a long time ago. It came from experimenting with Debian, 
Ubunto and others and using the same username on those other non-Fedora 
systems. What I did was not really a solution. Since I am a confirmed 
Fedoristo, I simply do not mount my home/Documents partition to alien systems.