I bought a 16GB USB thumbdrive from Staples last week to use as a
shuttle for some documents, scripts, and programs' data folders that
will be used on my desktop and my laptop in turns. I'll probably be
giving Stan's Data Bag project ( http://www.data-bag.org/ ) a spin,
too.
I feel like a cargo cu
On 02/25/2013 12:18 PM, Brendan Kidwell wrote:
I have had trouble with using Unix-native filesystems on portable
drives in the past, instead of vFAT, because the OS wants to record
owners to objects and those owners don't make any sense on another
machine. Is there a simple workaround for that?
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> On 02/25/2013 12:18 PM, Brendan Kidwell wrote:
>> I have had trouble with using Unix-native filesystems on portable
>> drives in the past, instead of vFAT, because the OS wants to record
>> owners to objects and those owners don't make any s
On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:18:36 -0500
Brendan Kidwell wrote:
> For Linux-only use, what filesystem should I use? vFAT/FAT32 is
> clearly the standard, but doesn't it use unreasonably large allocation
> block sizes?
For Linux only I advise using ext2. Yes, ext2.The ext3 and ext4
versions incur a lot
Matthew Gillen wrote:
> Create a single directory in the root of the thumb drive, and give that
> world-write and group-write, then give it set-group-ID bit ('chmod g+s
> dirname').
>
> Every file created will inherit the group-id of the original directory...
How does that help if the numeric GID
On 2/25/2013 10:19 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Matthew Gillen wrote:
>> Create a single directory in the root of the thumb drive, and give that
>> world-write and group-write, then give it set-group-ID bit ('chmod g+s
>> dirname').
>>
>> Every file created will inherit the group-id of the original direc
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 07:08:14PM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> On 2/25/2013 10:19 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> > Matthew Gillen wrote:
> >> Create a single directory in the root of the thumb drive, and give that
> >> world-write and group-write, then give it set-group-ID bit ('chmod g+s
> >> dirname')
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 05:45:47PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 07:08:14PM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> > It doesn't matter. The files (even new ones you're attempting to write)
> > always inherit the GID of the parent dir. It's just an integer. True,
> > it won't map to
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:55:29 -0600
Derek Martin wrote:
> Additionally, if your work desktop is shared, i.e. other users can log
> into it over the network, doing this will enable ANYONE to access all
> your files on the usb disk. From their desktop. Without you knowing.
How is this at all diff
On 02/28/2013 12:00 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:55:29 -0600
Derek Martin wrote:
Additionally, if your work desktop is shared, i.e. other users can log
into it over the network, doing this will enable ANYONE to access all
your files on the usb disk. From their desktop. Withou
find /path/to/thumb drive -xdev -type f -exec chmod 666 '{}' ';'
find /path/to/thumb drive -xdev -type d -exec chmod 777 '{}' ';'
Doesn't look all that tedious to me.
On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:45 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 07:08:14PM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote:
>> On 2/25
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:27:04 -0500
Jerry Feldman wrote:
> USB thumb drives are inherently insecure without encryption. It does
They're also inherently insecure with full disk encryption. Once
mounted, anyone who has access to the system has access to the files on
the device.
> But, with a Linu
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:27:04 -0500
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>
>> USB thumb drives are inherently insecure without encryption. It does
>
> They're also inherently insecure with full disk encryption. Once
> mounted, anyone who has access to the sy
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:35:59 -0500
Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
> Two different security issues are being conflated here.
No, they're not. They're the same security issue. A mounted file
system's security is only as good as the access control provided by the
host.
But then, the original questi
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 09:49:52AM -0500, John Abreau wrote:
> find /path/to/thumb drive -xdev -type f -exec chmod 666 '{}' ';'
> find /path/to/thumb drive -xdev -type d -exec chmod 777 '{}' ';'
>
> Doesn't look all that tedious to me.
You'll have to do that every time you add files to it... Se
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:00:03AM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:55:29 -0600
> Derek Martin wrote:
>
> > Additionally, if your work desktop is shared, i.e. other users can log
> > into it over the network, doing this will enable ANYONE to access all
> > your files on the usb d
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:51:10 -0600
Derek Martin wrote:
> It's very different. With a FAT filesystem, the OS gives you the
> option to specify the UID/GUID to mount with, so YOU DO NOT NEED TO
> MAKE THE FILES WORLD READABLE/WRITABLE. AFAIK you can't do that with
> any other writable filesystem.
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of John Abreau
>
> find /path/to/thumb drive -xdev -type f -exec chmod 666 '{}' ';'
> find /path/to/thumb drive -xdev -type d -exec chmod 777 '{}' ';'
You could do the same thing with
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