Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 05/01/2014 01:31, Chris Stankevitz wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >> It >> sounds like trying to manage a shared disk/stick with ext* would be a >> PITA. > > yes, it is, very much so I wonder what some

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/01/2014 01:31, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> You don't need chown/chmod at all. FAT has no concept of owner and >> permissions, so the kernel fudges these. Basically, when mounting the >> stick it pretends every file on it is owned by t

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Stick with FAT, where thereis no ownership so Linux pretend all files > are owned by whoever mounted the drive. Neil, Thank you. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > You don't need chown/chmod at all. FAT has no concept of owner and > permissions, so the kernel fudges these. Basically, when mounting the > stick it pretends every file on it is owned by the user that mounted it > and everything has permissi

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 00:31:27 -0200, Francisco Ares wrote: > As far as I know, in a Gentoo system, any user in the group "disk" will > be able to read/write to any USB stick plugged into the computer, with > no ownership to any written file. In Linux (at least), as users are > internally treated as

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/01/2014 01:02, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > Please consider a USB "stick" that is unformatted but is to be used by > multiple people/machines. Ideally your instructions will work for all > people/os/WM, but if necessary please assume that everyone is running > gnome under linux > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-02 Thread Francisco Ares
2014/1/2 Mateusz Kowalczyk > On 02/01/14 23:02, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Please consider a USB "stick" that is unformatted but is to be used by > > multiple people/machines. Ideally your instructions will work for all > > people/os/WM, but if necessary please assume that everyo

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-02 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 02/01/14 23:02, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > Please consider a USB "stick" that is unformatted but is to be used by > multiple people/machines. Ideally your instructions will work for all > people/os/WM, but if necessary please assume that everyone is running > gnome under linux Well,

[gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Please consider a USB "stick" that is unformatted but is to be used by multiple people/machines. Ideally your instructions will work for all people/os/WM, but if necessary please assume that everyone is running gnome under linux 1. How should I prepare this device so that it can be plugge