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Subject: [doc pointer] Re: mount msdos partition with user id?
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"Zhang Le" <ejoy@myrealbox.com> writes:

> Hello, 
>   I just move from linux to bsd and have a question on mounting  partition with a specific user id. The following command does not work:
>   root@:/home/zl/etc# mount -t msdos -o uid zl /dev/ad0s1 /d
>   msdos: -o uid : option not supported
> 
>   but "mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s1 /d" works.
> 
>   I have to su root each time I want to write something to /d. This is of course very boring.
> 
>   Could you help me out?

There are a couple of different ways to do this.  
See "man mount_msdos" for full details.