I create /mnt/foo directory as a normal use and then sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda5 /mnt/foo. Owner of the directory is changed to root.root. How can I instruct mount to leave ownership unchanged?
ps. It is "Amazon Linux"
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after you execute mount, the permission you see is the mounted directory, not the mounting point (directory) that you created. if you umount /mnt/foo successfully, you will see that the mounting point itself has not changed. therefore, if you want to preserve the same ownership after mounting the partition, you need to do a sudo chown desireduser /mnt/foo.