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Re: WD Passport commands

From Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: WD Passport commands
References <87objbv0f0.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info>
Date 2012-11-16 15:31 -0500
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I used mkntfs to reformat a WD Passport. Its size is 1 Tb, and it took
10 hours to reformat. 

I found that reformatting changes the UUID. But when I provided the new
UUID to fstab, it automounts just fine. It is mounted on a directory
owned by user, but it automatically reverts to root. 

Is there any good reason why I should not make its parent directory
(/media) owned by owner rather than root?

As a sanity check, I created a file in its partition. But it looks like
this:

    -rwxrwxrwx  1 root   root    5 Nov 16 14:56 test

I certainly did not want it to be executable or owned by root, but the
commands chown and chmod have no effect on it.

Haines Brown 


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WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-05 23:08 -0500
  Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-06 08:50 +0000
  Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-16 15:31 -0500
    Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-16 21:32 +0000
      Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-17 05:57 -0500
        Re: WD Passport commands J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-11-17 13:44 +0000
          Re: WD Passport commands Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-11-17 19:19 +0100
          Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-17 13:25 -0500
            Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-17 20:30 +0000
              Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-20 05:03 -0500
                Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-20 10:25 +0000
                Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-20 11:27 -0500
            Re: WD Passport commands J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-11-18 18:16 +0000
            Re: WD Passport commands Bill Marcum <bill@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-11-19 03:03 -0500

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