Hi,

I am trying to do a Debian chroot install using my current system, onto a fresh hard disk. I formatted all the partitions to use reiserfs, purely for experimental purposes.

In my existing system, I have a partition that gets mounted as /home/sameerds/data, with the user sameerds.users as the owner of the mount point and everything inside the mounted partition. This is standard stuff in ext3 using the uid and gid options. But I can't find anything equivalent in reiserfs ...

Second, here's some interesting behaviour, but I don't know how that is achieved.

Just after mounting /mnt/debinst/usr, here's the "ls -l" listing for usr/local

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Aug 11 11:58 local

And just after mounting /mnt/debinst/usr/local

drwxrwsr-x 11 root staff 240 Aug 11 13:03 local

How did this happen? I need similar settings with root.src as the owner for /mnt/debinst/usr/src, since that's the standard policy for Debian systems. Since that isn't happening automatically, I assume the behaviour for usr/local is not Debian-specific.

Any pointers? Sameer.