Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-07 Thread recoverym4n
Hi. On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 12:43:09 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 9/7/13, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > Which filesystem to recommend for external USB portable drives, which > move between 'random' hosts? vfat, udf. If you can stomach it, ntfs or exfat. If moving said files is one-time activity

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-07 Thread Joe
On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 12:43:09 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Which filesystem to recommend for external USB portable drives, which > move between 'random' hosts? I have gravitated to vfat, as some of us are required to use Windows for professional reasons. Usually I use two or three partitions

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/7/13, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 07:28:46PM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: >> Take two different hosts, make user with the same name, but different >> uids on those hosts. >> >> Take USB stick, format it as ext2 (any filesystem keeping file >> permissions will do, act

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-06 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 07:28:46PM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > Take two different hosts, make user with the same name, but different > uids on those hosts. > > Take USB stick, format it as ext2 (any filesystem keeping file > permissions will do, actually). > > Now, move some files with

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-06 Thread recoverym4n
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 20:07:44 -0700 Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:34:05AM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > > In short, invoke (after mounting the filesystem): > > > > chown -R peter /home/peter/MY > > I do stand to be corrected, but I don't remember a situation where I >

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-05 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 13:51:09 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 9/6/13, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > Given two USB pluggable devices, a Sony Mylo, > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylo_(Sony) , > > and a Kingston flash store. > > > > # These lines for udev. > > > > root@dalton:/home/peter# tail -n

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/6/13, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Given two USB pluggable devices, a Sony Mylo, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylo_(Sony) , > and a Kingston flash store. > > # These lines for udev. > > root@dalton:/home/peter# tail -n 8 /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules > # Persistent device names. > # The So

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-05 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:34:05AM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > In short, invoke (after mounting the filesystem): > > chown -R peter /home/peter/MY I do stand to be corrected, but I don't remember a situation where I had to do chown like this after every mount. All I've ever had to do in

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-05 Thread recoverym4n
Hi. On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 11:19:25 -0700 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > /dev/KingstonUSB /home/peter/MY ext2 defaults,noauto,user 0 0 This line is the reason. ext2 filesystem stores information about file/directory permissions inside itself, and root of this filesystem (/home/peter/MY) is