From: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com>
To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 15:31:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPi0pstmU1g4CRt-JuOfLc-gv7mG+x6wg7p=iwnRbG7hmMDX=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52C65C99.5080208@gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> You don't need chown/chmod at all. FAT has no concept of owner and
> permissions, so the kernel fudges these. Basically, when mounting the
> stick it pretends every file on it is owned by the user that mounted it
> and everything has permissions 777, regardless of who plugged it in.
> Considering the nature of a USB stick, this is almost always what you want.
Alan,
Thank you very much this is exactly what I needed to understand. It
sounds like trying to manage a shared disk/stick with ext* would be a
PITA.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-04 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-02 23:02 [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick Chris Stankevitz
2014-01-02 23:44 ` Mateusz Kowalczyk
2014-01-03 2:31 ` Francisco Ares
2014-01-03 9:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-04 23:32 ` Chris Stankevitz
2014-01-03 6:45 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-01-03 18:47 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-01-04 23:31 ` Chris Stankevitz [this message]
2014-01-04 23:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2014-01-05 0:42 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2014-01-05 1:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-01-05 21:26 ` walt
2014-01-05 21:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-01-05 21:50 ` walt
2014-01-05 21:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-01-05 5:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Chris Stankevitz
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