Re: best practices for an external hard drive that many hosts might use?

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Nov 21, 2007 12:36 PM, Brendan Kidwell <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 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? 

I think all you should need to do is mount it with the 'users' options 
and possibly a umask that allows everyone to write to it.  As far as I 
know, most recent distros will do this automatically when you plug in 
the USB drive.  Ubuntu even drops a new link on the desktop which 
points to the device and pops up a nautilus window for your perusal... 
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen 

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