From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Description of problem: When enabling bsdgroups as a default mount option into the fs superblock with tune2fs, the option is stored as can be seen with tune2fs -l, but does not seem to have an affect on the volume once remounted. This is desired as possible alternative to setgid on a directory. In these cases this option is not overwritten by mount command line or in /etc/fstab. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. chown :dgoode /data 2. tune2fs -o bsdgroups /dev/partition 3. cd /data 4. touch file 5. ls -l Actual Results: file group owner is root, or the user which created the file, and not that of the owner of the /data directory Expected Results: since the group owner of /data is dgoode, I would expect that the owner of the file would also be dgoode as outlined in the man page for tune2fs Additional info: