Ubuntu accessing MacOSX user folder.

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 02/10/2012 11:04 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> On 02/10/2012 10:56 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Dave Woyciesjes
>> <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> On 02/10/2012 10:34 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Created the crossover group in OSX, and added me as a member. Now to
>>> determine what the group number is. And no, OSX doesn't keep it in
>>> /etc/group. Already looked in that...
>>
>> I do not know if Mac OS X provides id, but try it in the terminal:
>>
>> id user_name
>>
	In my goofing around, I discover that the MacOSX group "staff", which 
is the default group that the user's files are a part of; the number for 
that maps to the "dialout" group in Ubuntu. So I don't need to create a 
matching groups in each OS.
	I can use the standard MacOSX methods of giving the "staff" group the 
desired permissions.
	Added a line to fstab to automount the mac partition, and added the 
force option to get RW.

	I've seen a few old posts about getting Mac to read ext4, but none of 
them give me the warm fuzzies enough to try them. Anyone have any 
experience with a particular method?

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