Permissions on a shared drive in dual boot setup

[Henrik Frisk]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at 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!
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