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easton741

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Registered: 2015-01-02

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[Solved] RAMFS / tmpfs Ownership Issue On fstab

I'm trying to make my ~/.cache & ~/Downloads directories a RAMFS to speed things up and make keep my downloads folder clean.
The issue is that the file-system always assigns ownership to root:root.

Here is the relevant part of my fstab:

#Cache RAMDisk
ramfs       /home/user/.cache       ramfs       uid=1000,gid=1000,mode=750,noexec,nodev       0       0

#Downloads
ramfs       /home/user/Downloads    ramfs       uid=1000,gid=1000,mode=750,noexec,nodev       0       0

From "ls -l -a ~/ | grep Downloads"

drwxr-x---  2 root root     0 Feb 24 12:06 Downloads

P.S. GNOME thinks that that ~/Downloads is a removable device for some weird reason as well.

Last edited by easton741 (2015-02-24 21:33:20)

WorMzy

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Re: [Solved] RAMFS / tmpfs Ownership Issue On fstab

$ man mount
[...]
Mount options for ramfs
       Ramfs is a memory based filesystem.  Mount it and you have it.  Unmount it and it is gone.
       Present since Linux 2.3.99pre4.  There are no mount options.

Try a tmpfs instead, it supports gid and uid.

Last edited by WorMzy (2015-02-24 19:29:30)

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easton741

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Re: [Solved] RAMFS / tmpfs Ownership Issue On fstab

Many thanks. I'm almost embarrassed at how simple a fix that was.