On 12 February 2010 17:17, Guus Snijders <gsnijders@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11-02-10 23:51, Gaurish Sharma wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Idea was for quick and dirty data sharing. example, my friend brings >> portable hdd& I need to copy project files into that removable volume. >> >> I can't do that without being root, since the removeable device changes >> everything(I have lot of friends), putting entry in fstab is also not a >> solution. > > Well, for quick&dirty sharing, i'd use FAT32. It has some constraints, but > has the big advantage that most OS'es understand it. > It also "fixes" the problem of permissions, since it doesn't support those > ;). > > OTOH; if the data is always shared amongst the same users, you could also > try to find/create a group with the same GID on all systems. Then you can > use a better FS and set the permissions to that GID. > > mvg, > Guus > I'm not able to reproduce this. Could you hotplug an ext2-formatted drive and see if it also doesn't work there? -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
