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Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems?

Posted by timothy on from the hell-is-other-people's-file-permissions dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Most people use MS filesystems on Disk-On-Keys, and portable hard drives, as these are readable from most machines. But this way you lose the files' permission information, which many times is very inconvenient (you must agree that having Ubuntu asking you whether to execute or display every text file or image you open from a DOK is annoying). Using 'regular' Linux filesystems like ext keeps the permissions, but may require using the superuser when switching machines (as the UIDs are different). So do any of you have a creative solution for this problem?"

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  1. NTFS by mrcaseyj · · Score: 5, Funny

    Use NTFS?

  2. Re:ext3 by Abalamahalamatandra · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not sure I'd use Reiser - I hear it's murder on your USB drive.

  3. pollutant? It's the room by kipling · · Score: 5, Funny

    sofar wrote:

    >mrcaseyj wrote:
    >>
    >>> C3ntaur wrote:
    >>> I invite anyone who claims CO2 is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes.
    >>
    >> I invite anyone who claims pure water is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes.
    >
    > I invite anyone who claims pure oxygen is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes

    I invite anyone who claims pure vacuum is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes.

    You are all wrong: in all these fatal scenarios, the common element is the room. Those do-gooders in Copenhagen should be negotiating an agreement on room reduction.

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  4. Re:ext3 by cadeon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is your password 17JJ?