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By-passing default permissions when mounting HFS+ volumes in linux

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I have a dual booting macbook pro with Snow Leopard and Kubuntu 11.10, and want to read (don't care about write) my home Mac home directory when I'm running Kubuntu. I can mount it without any problems, but my user on Kubuntu on can't see the files on the HFS+ owned by the mac user, because of diff…

Error Output

When mounting an HFSPlus filesystem, the following options are accepted:
[CUT]
    uid=n, gid=n
        Specifies the user/group that owns all files …

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Fix for: By-passing default permissions when mounting HFS+ volumes in linux

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is the answer. It will take an already mounted file system and provide a view of it with whichever uid you'd like: Edit: Also, reading the doc I realized that the option (1.10 and later) might fit better:

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