Am 26.06.2013 16:22, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> On 26/06/2013 15:09, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>> Hi list
>>
>> By chance I found an external 3 TB disk for a bargain and now I’m planning 
>> its
>> partitioning. I am thus looking for a filesystem that doesn’t necessarily
>> need file permissions to function, the reason being that I might want to take
>> the disk to other people in order to copy files around. That’s why I don’t
>> really want to use ext4 (my FS of choice for everything else).
>>
[...]
>>
>> Windows compatibility is not a must, but a nice-to-have. That would reduce my
>> remaining choices to ExFAT, I presume.
> 

BTW: What's the Linux status on that one?

> 
> That's how I see it too.
> 
> I used to use ext4 for external media but quickly found that my notebook
> was the only box that could use them...
> 

Isn't group id 100 defined as the users group on most Linuxen nowadays?

chgrp 100 $mount && chmod 2777 $mount

should work reasonably well.

Regards,
Florian Philipp


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