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Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems?
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?"
use DVD's, you'll still lose all of the security on the files, but they can be read by everything.
So your solution to a problem is to give up? How does that tend to work out for you?
I am the lawn!
Since I don't want to propagate any Microsoft filesystem, I format all of my USB devices with ext2. If anyone on Windows wants anything I have on those devices, they either install one of the Windows ext2 drivers, or I create a temporary Samba share for them use to get at the data over the LAN.