I bought a new shiny red 500 GB USB HDD recently in order to back up large files (mostly video but other stuff as well). My previous HDDs I formatted as fat32 since that can be read and written by most devices (PS3, Windows, Mac etc). Since I would only use this new HDD with my different computers running fedora I thought I could use a more modern file system like ext3 or ext4. This would allow me to have larger files (and also maybe better performance). However, I would like to have the extremely high usability/minimal security of fat32 (anyone who mounts the disk can read and write everything on the disk) and it seems that this is not possible using ext3/ext4. So I ended up using ntfs..... I feel this is a bit of loss for free software in general and fedora in particular and I hope something could be done at the situation. So I have the following questions: 1: Are there already ways to do what I want and I have just missed it? 2: Are there any others who have this need or am I just weird. Do people really need permissions on all their disk or is it more convenient if some disks are totally open? If I am the only one who wants this there is no need to do any work. 3: What can be done? Do we need to create a "Permissionless ext4" or are there any simpler options? Could we maybe make an option to set all mounted USB drives so that all users can write and read anything on them? Or are the any better ways to achive what I want? Best regards Andreas Tunek -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
