Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell@novell.com) Feature #305075, revision 1 Title: Allow to set the owner of a partition openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Sven Burmeister (sven.burmeister@gmx.net) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: If a user buys a new external harddrive and partitions it via YaST he will not be able to write on it, since the filesystem is owned by root. A normal user would need to know about how to use konsole and which command to use in order to change the owner. It would be a lot easier, if the user could change the owner within the partitioning module. Of course this should not be possible for system-partitions such as / and /usr etc, yet /windows and /media, as well as /home/xyz/ should be fine. Discussion: #1: Arvin Schnell(aschnell@novell.com) (2008-07-15 08:32:00) Do you want to set gui and uid in /etc/fstab? #2: Sven Burmeister(sven.burmeister@gmx.net) (2008-07-15 08:56:26) I'm not sure which is the best approach. Either the user could do something that replaces "chown user:group ." on the new partition or some predefined gui/uid to select from, because the normal user has no idea about those and the numbers that go with them. The goal is that a user that knows the root password can not only partition a new harddrive via GUI but also make it accessible (rw) to users without having to know anything about fstab-syntax and options. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305075