>> Create a top-level folder on the USB drive that's owned by your userid, then >> you can create any subfolders that your heart desires. >> >> > This is totally broken if the disk is used on multiple computers. > Having to maintain same UID-username combinations on the different > computers is just not good usability. At least, on all Fedora desktop, the first created user has the same UID (501) right ? And as most desktops are single user anyway, this is less trouble than it would seem. However, fun starts when you plug your HDD in a cyber-café or another multi-user desktop environment :) > The way I'd like it to work is that all the files would appear to be > owned by the user who mounted the disk, regardless of what was stored > in the filesystem metadata. The rwx permission bits could well be > applied as usual. That sure would be great. ---------- Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
