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Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION

From <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION
Date 2016-10-25 18:10 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:40:10AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:32:29AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I'm in a multi-boot environment, multiple installs of Debian.
> > I want all install to have read/write/execute permissions.
> > The partition will effectively be serving as a common scratch pad 
> > in order to exchange information. There is organically a single 
> > user, [*ME*] and there is *NO* networking of any sort whatsoever.
> 
> The simplest way would be to synchronize your UID across all your
> installed operating systems.  If your UID is, let's say, 1000 on every
> system, and the files on the partition are owned by user 1000, then
> user 1000 (you) will have ownership of the files whenever you mount
> the partition.
> 
> If that's not an option, then you'll need to use Unix permissions.
> If you can synchronize a *group* GID across all OSes, then you can
> just make the files and directories group-writable by that group.
> 
> Otherwise, you'll have to make everything world-writable.

Well, there's bindfs [1], where you can (via FUSE) mount a directory
somewhere else, and (among other things) map user/group IDs. Never
tried it, but it sounds like hellish fun. I'd prefer synchronizing
the IDs, though. But in a pinch...

There is a like-named Debian package.

[1] http://bindfs.org/docs/bindfs.1.html
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Permissions for an entire PARTITION Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-25 17:40 +0200
  Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-25 17:50 +0200
    Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-25 18:10 +0200
    Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-25 18:40 +0200
      Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-25 18:50 +0200
        Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-28 17:30 +0200
          Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-28 17:50 +0200
          Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-10-28 21:40 +0200
            EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-28 22:50 +0200
              Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2016-10-28 23:10 +0200
              Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-29 00:20 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-29 01:40 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 11:20 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-10-29 14:20 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 15:00 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-29 16:10 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 17:50 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-29 20:20 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 22:30 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-30 00:50 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-30 10:30 +0100
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-30 14:00 +0100
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-10-30 14:20 +0100
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-30 18:10 +0100
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-10-29 21:30 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-29 22:00 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-10-29 22:30 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-30 01:10 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-10-30 01:20 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-10-30 13:00 +0100
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-10-31 02:30 +0100
          Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2016-10-29 15:30 +0200
      Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2016-10-25 19:40 +0200
      Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-26 10:20 +0200
        Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-10-26 13:20 +0200
          Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-26 14:30 +0200
            Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-26 14:50 +0200
            Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2016-10-27 07:50 +0200

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