From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GlfkG-0006H8-3V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 06:01:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAJ5wttL018221; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:58:55 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAJ5upsu000132 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:56:51 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so3382892nfb for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:56:51 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=EFI2o/XGqux/hxAf+zJNFeOR5VA0BoEOTLloQfyAlsXIzNrk21q9kGc0N3xthDhrzPXWKODBs9wh1qyIjFD0sTxfOJgD6gmqyGlY6woGjtXA+KeCqRKjYeMYKJaxRAAPA1hUSgU/oQKpUYLU8w4wxxj69UtNk0Mk5M/pudTCx1M= Received: by 10.82.107.15 with SMTP id f15mr420487buc.1163915811406; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:56:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.156.6 with HTTP; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:56:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9acccfe50611182156g34d2582av37ee1fc2684fe19a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:56:51 -0800 From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Reformat/repartition USB flash drive to ext2/3? Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: d9554bac-1ffa-430b-b37a-a75a2e9057f7 X-Archives-Hash: ea46f6241e6c4a81c80973b052a42763 I am annoyed with using vfat on my USB flash drives because I cannot get proper permissions and ownership. Not for the security (meaningless on a drive that easy to steal, unless encrypted), but annoying anyway. Is there any technical reason I should not repartition it as something else -- ext3 or xfs, say -- and allow executables and such? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list