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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem recommendation for external media storage
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:23:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51CBF69C.5040703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130626165955.4f429c65@digimed.co.uk>

On 26/06/2013 17:59, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:22:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 
>> I used to use ext4 for external media but quickly found that my notebook
>> was the only box that could use them...
> 
> You could use ACLs to make everything world read/writeable.
> 
> Sledgehammer, meet nut :)

I have a pathological inability to type chomod 666

Everytime I try it a background watchdog process in my brain kicks in
and a few million more neurons die a nasty death :-)



> 
>> exfat ticks more boxes than any other option
> 
> Makes sense to me too
> 
> 


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-27  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-26 13:09 [gentoo-user] Filesystem recommendation for external media storage Frank Steinmetzger
2013-06-26 14:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-06-26 15:59   ` Neil Bothwick
2013-06-27  8:23     ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2013-06-27  8:36       ` Neil Bothwick
2013-06-26 16:40   ` Florian Philipp
2013-06-27  1:33     ` Frank Steinmetzger
2013-06-27  8:13       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-06-27 11:36         ` Frank Steinmetzger
2013-06-27 15:03         ` Helmut Jarausch

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