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I have formatted an internal drive as exFAT so it can be shared with Windows if necessary and mounted it from Disks, creating the following fstab entry:

LABEL=Media /mnt/Media auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,x-gvfs-name=Media 0 0

This auto mounts the drive and I can read the drive but every file shows as root-owned and if I create a file there or copy a file there it defaults to 'root' even though I am not using sudo or logged in as root which is confusing. I want it to be readable and writable to one user uid=1000. fuse-exfat and exfat-utils are installed. Can I not change permissions on exFAT or have a mounted it as root but have given myself access to it?

ls -l shows every file as -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root or 777

Zanna
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Capitalmind
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FAT/FAT32/exFAT filesystems do not support users per file as common Linux filesystems, AFAIK. So, chown and chgrp will not work. However you can specify a single user/group for all files during mount

sudo mount /dev/sdc /mnt/media/ -o uid=1000,gid=1000

(here /dev/sdc is just an example)

luca.vercelli
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