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

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wednesday 21 November 2007 01:37:25 pm Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> 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...