External USB drives - Formating important... Otherwise, use chown
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 75.69.85.120]
on April 11, 2008 01:30 PM
With an external drive... format it using FAT or FAT32 for some uses.
If formated with a traditional LINUX file system, then as you change machines you have then take ownership of the drive to use is. This means hunting for the command line to do this.
<a href="http://www.linfo.org/chown.html">Linux Information Project Chown page</a>
What is needed maybe... is a LINUX feature, that could be added by a user like adding an application, for when a USB device is attached and the file system is not allowing access! Where upon adding the file system on that USB device, that a pop up asks for a admin level password for chown access (or permisssion for single use of chown for only this device) is allowed, PASSWORD PERMITTING only... , of course!
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External USB drives - Formating important... Otherwise, use chown
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 75.69.85.120] on April 11, 2008 01:30 PMIf formated with a traditional LINUX file system, then as you change machines you have then take ownership of the drive to use is. This means hunting for the command line to do this.
I use a chown command to get to those files.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chown">Wikipedia Chown page</a>
or
<a href="http://www.linfo.org/chown.html">Linux Information Project Chown page</a>
What is needed maybe... is a LINUX feature, that could be added by a user like adding an application, for when a USB device is attached and the file system is not allowing access! Where upon adding the file system on that USB device, that a pop up asks for a admin level password for chown access (or permisssion for single use of chown for only this device) is allowed, PASSWORD PERMITTING only... , of course!
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