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Offline perthie

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Ownership of External Devices
« on: September 28, 2009, 09:12:54 AM »
If I plug in a flash drive that is formatted as FAT, it is given tc:staff ownership, so it's easy to use. But if the device is formatted as ext, the ownership becomes root:root, so I have to use sudo mode to work with it. There is probably a good reason for this, but it's a bit inconvenient.

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Offline curaga

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Re: Ownership of External Devices
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2009, 09:29:45 AM »
FAT doesn't support permissions, so the mounted user gets them temporarily. Ext2 does, so whatever is set on the device stays when mounted.
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Re: Ownership of External Devices
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2009, 05:56:35 PM »
Creating a directory with tc:staff permissions would probably be a simple alternative.
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Offline perthie

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Re: Ownership of External Devices
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2009, 06:34:31 PM »
Thanks! That works.
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