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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?"

6 of 569 comments (clear)

  1. Jesus... by IANAAC · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Rosry 'bout teh lysdexia.

  2. Re:I use the FAT filesystem most sticks come with by sofar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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

  3. Bootable by cstdenis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just boot off it. Then you can use whatever filesystem you want.

    --
    1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
  4. Re:ext3 by node+3 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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

    It's easy to make fun of Reiser, the murderer, but don't forget, your laughs are at the expense of an innocent woman who was brutally murdered as well as two orphaned children.

  5. Re:ext3 by zogre · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    False equivalency. You've just equated Nazis and the KKK with Teletubbies in terms of offensiveness. Bravo.

    Godwin's law. You lose.

  6. To all the children... by node+3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To all the children modding me down this thread:

    WTF is wrong with you? I'm not offtopic (the topic of the joke was murder, I couldn't be more on topic), nor further down this thread, flamebait.

    Seriously, someone died, two children lost their mother (and father). Write a joke if you want, I never said not to, but don't rag on me for pointing out a real-life tragedy is what you're all laughing at.

    I realize it only takes a handful of morons to swing moderation around one way or the other, but ffs. Way to promote Linux, and fight the image that Linux is for arrested development, socially awkward little boys burrowed deep into their mother's basement. "Oh no! He pointed out something that a grown up and mature person might think on a joke about murder. Burn him!"

    Foolish kids.