[gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

[Chris Stankevitz]

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