-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is a driver for windows that allows it to read ext2/3 (ext2 is better for flash drives because there are fewer writes). This is now what I use on my flash drives (with a small vfat partition containing the win driver)
You may be interested in these ext2 mount options: resuid=n The user ID which may use the reserved blocks. resgid=n The group ID which may use the reserved blocks. Some other interesting mount options: grpid, bsdgroups Give objects the same group ID as their parent. - -nogrpid, sysvgroups (*) New objects have the group ID of their creator. +nogrpid, sysvgroups New objects have the group ID of their creator. In the linux kernel sources under Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt is where I got this info. Very handy place to look btw. Cheers, Roy Souther wrote: > I need my system to be able to let uses read and write to USB drives and > memory devices when they plug them into their local station. When a user > inserts a USB device I have the system locate the user ID by the owner > of the DISPLAY session. The device is then mounted in their home > directory. For USB memory sticks I use the UID and GID so that all > entries on the device are owned by them and they have full rights. This > works great for small USB memory sticks that come pre-formated as vfat > because vfat supports the UID and GID options. > > New problem. Someone wants to plug in an 80GB external USB drive. The > drive came as NTFS. Linux cannot write to NTFS in any way that a Windows > system could read the data back. Vfat does not support partitions larger > then 32GB and ext2 & 3 do not support UID or GID so the system is owned > by root. > > I would like some way to make the mounted 80GB drive ext2 or ext3 and > owned by the user that inserted the device just the same way I do with > small USB memory sticks. I cannot figure out any way to do that. > Everything I have tried has failed and only root can write to the drive. > > Linux has an NTFS DLL wrapper that will use the Windows DLL's to write > to the drive so that Windows can read them but I don't think I am > allowed to distribute those DLL's. I really need an unencumbered solution. > > So I am looking at all the different FS types that Linux supports, there > are a lot. Can you give me your input on what FS to use? Do any FS types > support large size and UID/GID that both Linux and Windows can read? > > > _Royce Souther <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>_ > _www.SiliconTao.com <http://www.SiliconTao.com>_ > Let Open Source help your business move beyond. > > For security this message is digitally authenticated by _GnuPG > <http://www.gnupg.org>_. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEKtEbwRXgH3rKGfMRAhy9AJ0RLb3XunAe9Kw8GasY8Url/cTeOACfWmzZ DDcrVMvFV3jF4Za/DybqONg= =gMzw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
