From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: fair-tuhs@netbsd.org (Erik E. Fair)
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:32:33 -0800
Subject: [TUHS] observations on Unix v6's mount command
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The 31 is likely a UID number not found in /etc/passwd

Insofar as I know, you can set the ownership of a file to any arbitrary integer within the range of the uid_t (or whatever it was in ye olden days). See chown(8).

	Erik