2008/11/21 Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> For removable drives, once the kernel supports uid=/gid= options for
> hfs+ (Mac) and ext3 (other Linuxes), they can be trivially applied
> automatically in hal if a device is detected as removable. The hard
> part is to get kernel support for it.

This should not be done unconditionally. I mount a USB drive with an
ext3 filesystem and make a backup to it using rsync. The backup should
continue to preserve permissions.

-- 
Marcin Kowalczyk
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/

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