[Buildroot] How to set file ownership prior to JFFS2 root filesystem generation

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Wed Jun 9 02:58:39 UTC 2010


Hi Matthew,

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 03:36:36PM -0700, Matthew Davison wrote:
> I would like to create a home directory on the target and set its
> ownership to the uid of a user that will also be present on the target.
> I've noticed that something like this is already happening for the
> /home/default directory, but I have been unable to determine how. In
> general, how do you set the ownership of a file prior to JFFS2 root
> filesystem generation?

To tweak ownership and permission of files and directories in the generated 
filesystem you need to edit the relevant device_table file. For the generic 
filesystem this is (currently) target/generic/device_table.txt.

baruch

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