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On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 00:31:27 -0200, Francisco Ares wrote: |
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> As far as I know, in a Gentoo system, any user in the group "disk" will |
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> be able to read/write to any USB stick plugged into the computer, with |
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> no ownership to any written file. In Linux (at least), as users are |
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> internally treated as numbers, those would not match from one system to |
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> another, so there is no meaning in a user owning a file in a removable |
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> device. |
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This is incorrect. File ownership is a domain of the filesystem, it is |
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held in the file's metadata. If you use a filesystem that supports |
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ownership, like ext*, you will end up with a non-portable stick. Belog to |
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the disk group only allows access to the dev node, not the files on the |
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disk. |
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Stick with FAT, where thereis no ownership so Linux pretend all files |
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are owned by whoever mounted the drive. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom. |
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