On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:48:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualisation > LMIT, Supporting the EPA Research Triangle Park, NC 919-541-0007 > Federal Contact - John B. Smith 919-541-1087 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/28/2005 12:06:07 PM: > > > Here's the way I did that for my machines: > > > > 1) Leave the key drive a fat file system. > > I hoped not to have to do this :-( Why can't you use ext3? > > Do you need fat so you can use the uid/gid below (your "2")
No, you need fat because it doesn't store the uid/gid in the filesystem. Ext2/3/other unix filesystems do, so they won't work. Because you have different uid/gids on different machines, the uid/gid can _not_ be stored in the filesystem if you want it to work. By storing the data in a fat file system, you can specify the uid/gid to impose upon the filesystem when you mount it. Because they're stored on disk for ext2 filesystems you cannot. > how do you do it with ext2? You would need someway to change all the uid/gids stored on the disk each time you mounted the filesystem. For your small filesystem, this wouldn't be too hard, but it would be another step and it's unlikely that you could easily automate it everywhere. Cheers, Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=8127171 (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
