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[Discuss] USB thumbdrive, Linux only usage: FAT vs NTFS vs other? TRIM support?



On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> 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 sense on another
>> machine. Is there a simple workaround for that?
>
> 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').

Thanks for that tip. Shirley D?lcey also pointed that out in a private
email and I'll give it a try if I decided not to use FAT.



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