mounting external usb drives: solved
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Aug 4 23:17:54 UTC 2008
Gerhard Magnus wrote:
>
> Everything works. The good news I wasn't expecting is that the
> filesystems keep their permissions through the unmounting/mounting of a
> reboot. In case anyone wonders, the extra "1" in "chmod 1777" blocks
> users (other than root) from deleting the folder or changing its
> permissions.
>
Because it is an ext3 file system, the permissions are saved as part
of the file system. (Think of the permissions on /.) Access of the
USB drive is the same as the rest of your file system.
Mikkel
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