[arch-general] [Device Auto-mounting] HAL, KDE4.4 and tight default permissions

[Ray Rashif]

On 12 February 2010 17:17, Guus Snijders <gsnijders at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11-02-10 23:51, Gaurish Sharma wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Idea was for quick and dirty data sharing. example, my friend brings
>> portable hdd&  I need to copy project files into that removable volume.
>>
>> I can't do that without being root, since the removeable device changes
>> everything(I have lot of friends), putting entry in fstab is also not a
>> solution.
>
> Well, for quick&dirty sharing, i'd use FAT32. It has some constraints, but
> has the big advantage that most OS'es understand it.
> It also "fixes" the problem of permissions, since it doesn't support those
> ;).
>
> OTOH; if the data is always shared amongst the same users, you could also
> try to find/create a group with the same GID on all systems. Then you can
> use a better FS and set the permissions to that GID.
>
> mvg,
>   Guus
>

I'm not able to reproduce this. Could you hotplug an ext2-formatted
drive and see if it also doesn't work there?


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