Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

[Grant]

>> > And why use exfat if you use linux? It is just not needed at all.
>>
>> I agree.  If you want to transport something between Linux systems,
>> use ext2/3 and use "mount" options to handle the permission issues.
>
> You can't control ownership and permissions of existing files with mount
> options on a Linux filesystem. See man mount.


So in order to use a USB stick between multiple Gentoo systems with
ext2, I need to make sure my users have matching UIDs/GIDs?  I think
this is how I ended up on NTFS in the first place.  Is there a
filesystem that will make that unnecessary and exhibit better
reliability than NTFS?

- Grant