Ubuntu accessing MacOSX user folder.

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Dave Woyciesjes
<woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>        I've got my MacBook Pro dual booting OSX 10.6 and Ubuntu 11.10. Now
> what I want to do is to be able to use the Documents (and others) folder in
> the OSX user folder (/User/Dave/Documents) with Ubuntu as well.
>        Yes, there are many how-tos that mention using a third partition for
> this. Since I don't have a lot of extra space (and I'd rather not anyway); I
> need to figure out a good way to get the permissions right...
>        Since OSX user number is 501, and Ubuntu start at 1001; that's a bit
> of a hiccup.
>
>        One thought I had was to create a group on each os, "crossover" and
> set the groups to have matching numbers as well. Then in Mac OSX I would
> give the crossover group rwx permissions on the folder I want access to.
>        I'd also have to add a line to fstab to get the OSX partition mounted
> automatically as well.
>
>        This all make sense, or am I headed down the wrong (or bad?) path?

This sounds like a reasonable approach.


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