Just give it the option uid and gid in the line : /dev/sdb14 /mac_hfs hfs uid=1000,gid=1000 0 2
or whatever number you've got assigned to your user. Works like a charm for me. Cheers, LdS on 2/10/02 6:43 PM, William C Brennan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folks, > > I have an hfs-formatted partition mounted on my Linux system which I > use to exchange data with my Mac when its booted with MacOS. For > some reason I can not change the permissions, even as superuser. I > would like to make the hfs partition writable even to the everyday > Linux users (well, me as a non-superuser) just for convenience sake. > > Here's the line which automounts this partition in my /etc/fstab: > > /dev/sdb14 /mac_hfs hfs defaults 0 2 > > > Is there something special about a mounted hfs partition that > prevents me from changing the permissions? How can I make this > partition writable by everyone? > > -- Bill >