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I have a couple of external hard drives with Firewire and USB connectors on each, and in the last year I've been ridding myself of Windows and OS X computers, to the point where it doesn't make any sense to use NTFS or FAT32 on these disks. I'd like to reformat them with a filesystem native to Linux such as ext3 or reiserfs, but I have a concern about permissions, because Linux drivers for NTFS and FAT32 don't support file-level permissions and any other filesystem I would use would support them. I don't want to get caught in a mess when I drop a bunch of files at home onto the disk and have them owned by brendan@home (could be user number 1001) and then I can't read them when I plug the disk in at work when I'm logged in at kidwellb@office (could be user number 1002). Ideally I would like it to behave the same as any FAT32-formatted USB storage device is typically mounted: You plug it in and your desktop automatically mounts it under a folder like "/media", and any user who can access such mounts has FULL access on ALL files in the external device. In other words, I want to dispense with file-level permissions. Is there a proper way to do this, either while formatting the disk, or in the command used to mount it? Brendan Kidwell -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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