overflowgid

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2006-06-01 01:35

Some filesystems only support 16-bit GIDs, although in Linux GIDs are 32 bits. When one of these filesystems is mounted with writes enabled, any GID that would exceed 65535 is translated to a fixed value before being written to disk.

This sysctl allows you to change the value of the fixed GID. The default is 65534.