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date: "2003-12-04T01:41:06Z"
title: DVD Burning, Funky UID?
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I've been doing backups with <a href='http://www.tcpipinfo.org/'>Alonzo's (osiekhan)</a> <acronym title='Digital Video Disc'>DVD</acronym> burner.  It's <em>really</em> nice to have 4 gigs of space, and I haven't coastered anything yet, but there's one minor (and annoying) snafu.  Check out the permissions on <samp>/mnt/dvd</samp>:
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dr--r--r--    5 4294967295 4294967295      292 Dec  4  2003 /mnt/dvd
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<p>
I've been sifting around the <code>mount</code> and <code>fstab</code> man pages and trying various options.  No combination of <code>uid=</code>, <code>gid=</code>, or <code>umask=</code> seems to give me anything that's perusable by anyone other than root.  Ah well, minor price to pay for having that much space at my finger tips.
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