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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick
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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