[SOLVED] Lost write permissions ~/ directory since migrating to F2FS

I recently moved my /home directory on to a partition that is formatted with the F2FS file system. Since doing that my regular user can no longer write to the ~/ directory even though the folder permissions look OK.
So my permissions for my /home/marko directory are:
drwx------    marko users
("marko" owning the directory)
And  the partition it is located on is formatted with f2fs with  the following mount options in fstab:
defaults,rw,nofail,noatime
Last edited by marko2010 (2015-06-01 23:17:24)

Thanks, I just realized problem is actually due to user error. I'm so used to my usual shell starting me in my  user directory that I did not realize the new shell I was using was actually starting me in the "/" directory (as a regular user). I'll mark this "solved," and my apologies for the wild goose chase.

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