Hello, Please consider a USB "stick" that is unformatted but is to be used by multiple people/machines. Ideally your instructions will work for all people/os/WM, but if necessary please assume that everyone is running gnome under linux
1. How should I prepare this device so that it can be plugged into any machine and will be writable by anyone? I suspect the answer will involve words like fdisk, mkfs.xxx, mkdir/mount, chmod/chown. I'm most interested in the chmod/chown part. 2. How can I prepare the device so that files/directories added by people in the future will continue to be writable by anyone? 3. How can I ensure that all files will appear to have the same owner; or, if this is not important, can you explain why it should not be a problem. And of course if you can refer me to a document that explains this I'm happy to read it. Thank you, Chris
