On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > You don't need chown/chmod at all. FAT has no concept of owner and > permissions, so the kernel fudges these. Basically, when mounting the > stick it pretends every file on it is owned by the user that mounted it > and everything has permissions 777, regardless of who plugged it in. > Considering the nature of a USB stick, this is almost always what you want.
Alan, Thank you very much this is exactly what I needed to understand. It sounds like trying to manage a shared disk/stick with ext* would be a PITA. Chris
