Having problems using the mount command

[Volker Wysk]

Am Sonntag, den 23.08.2020, 00:27 -0700 schrieb Bob:
> The owner is root, I tried to chown but that did not work.  

But this should work. Do a chown *after* mounting the partition.
Probably it's just that the root of the file system in /dev/sda5 is
owned by root.

> I do
> not see a way to specify an owner using mount.  

I've never heard of a way to specify the owner in the mount command.

> Looks like I will need to mount
> this device using the fstab.  The fstab entry I tried also set the
> user as
> root, anyone know to set the user?

See above.

Good luck,
Volker