Another approach to my RO drive issue...

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:23:10 +0100
Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> As the user name is not stored, but the user ID, the files will belong to 
> the user with the ID 1000, when you later mount the USB disk on a real 
> system. If necessary you can change the ownership when it is mounted on 
> the real system then.

Actually there is a problem here - on a live CD the ubuntu user has the
UID and GID 999 - not 1000. 1000 is used for the first created user when
installing.

Thus you either need to create a new user on the live CD, or make the
owner "ubuntu / 999". The latter is not very flexible, if you later want to
use the data with a hard drive installed system.

This issue should not arise with a FAT formatted drive, of course.

Peter

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