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

[invalid at pizzashack.org (Derek Martin)]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 05:45:47PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 07:08:14PM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> > It doesn't matter.  The files (even new ones you're attempting to write)
> > always inherit the GID of the parent dir. It's just an integer.  True,
> > it won't map to a readable name on some systems (or map to a different
> > name), but the display name of the group doesn't matter, and won't stop
> > you from reading and writing.  The permission system is based on the
> > integer values.
> 
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> Unless you also make all your FILES world readable and world writable
> when you write them to the USB drive, you will not be able to read or
> write those files when you plug it into your work desktop.

Additionally, if your work desktop is shared, i.e. other users can log
into it over the network, doing this will enable ANYONE to access all
your files on the usb disk.  From their desktop.  Without you knowing.

Think very carefully before you do something like this.


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