On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 12:43 +0100, Henrik Frisk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a MBP with a ssd that hosts Fedora 20 and OSx Mavericks in a dual
> boot setup. In the laptop I also have a 500GB internal drive on which I
> currently have my OSX Home directory. I have this drive (HFS+) mounted r/w
> in Linux, but, as perhaps expected, there are a lot of issues with
> permissions (files and directories in my OSX Home directory that i can't
> access except if I copy them as root).
>
> Is there a way that I can with this disk in Fedora, opening files and
> writing files to it that I later can access in OSX as a regular user
> similar to how I can move a USB drive from one computer to another without
> getting issues with permissions? Or is it not advisable to do what I'm
> trying to do? I have to admit that I haven't tried changing permissions on
> the existing files on the drive but I suspect that would make them
> inaccessible in OSX...
>
> Please note that I have no problem mounting the disk as rw, only accessing
> the files that are already there.

The reason it's easy with a USB drive is that most of these are
formatted as VFAT, which has no concept of file ownership.

The simplest solution is to make your user ids compatible between the
two systems (I mean their actual numerical values as recorded
in /etc/passwd).