Hi Roy, Did you try UDF yet? The mount MAN page claims it supports '-o uid/gid', but my limited testing seems to show they don't work :-(.
But I also found this page, with a kernel patch to do exactly enable the missing functionality. http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/5/171 >From the wikipedia, XP should have UDF read support natively. Writing can apparently be added with drivers..... Simon On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:51:00AM -0700, Roy Souther wrote: > I need my system to be able to let uses read and write to USB drives and > memory devices when they plug them into their local station. When a user > inserts a USB device I have the system locate the user ID by the owner > of the DISPLAY session. The device is then mounted in their home > directory. For USB memory sticks I use the UID and GID so that all > entries on the device are owned by them and they have full rights. This > works great for small USB memory sticks that come pre-formated as vfat > because vfat supports the UID and GID options. > > New problem. Someone wants to plug in an 80GB external USB drive. The > drive came as NTFS. Linux cannot write to NTFS in any way that a Windows > system could read the data back. Vfat does not support partitions larger > then 32GB and ext2 & 3 do not support UID or GID so the system is owned > by root. > > I would like some way to make the mounted 80GB drive ext2 or ext3 and > owned by the user that inserted the device just the same way I do with > small USB memory sticks. I cannot figure out any way to do that. > Everything I have tried has failed and only root can write to the drive. > > Linux has an NTFS DLL wrapper that will use the Windows DLL's to write > to the drive so that Windows can read them but I don't think I am > allowed to distribute those DLL's. I really need an unencumbered > solution. > > So I am looking at all the different FS types that Linux supports, there > are a lot. Can you give me your input on what FS to use? Do any FS types > support large size and UID/GID that both Linux and Windows can read? > > > Royce Souther > www.SiliconTao.com > Let Open Source help your business move beyond. > > For security this message is digitally authenticated by GnuPG. > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
