On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Stefan Seyfried
Am 23.05.2012 15:24, schrieb Marcus Meissner:
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 08:42:27PM +0200, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Users who buy an external hard drive/usb stick which is pre-formatted with e.g. fat32 but they want to format/re-partition it to fit their Linux needs.
Currently they need root privileges, have to know how to open YaST, which module to use for formatting and after that they have to know that they still cannot use it because the disk belongs to root and one would have to change the file permissions. Yet changing the file permissions is not part of the formatting tool…
With other OSs making an external hard drive usable is a lot easier.
How often would this usecase happen do you think?
Are these just us geeks doing the fs switch to UNIX filesystems?
I often reformat external media to fat32 or ntfs. It is not only for switching to UNIX fs. -- Stefan Seyfried
Agreed. I know windows admins at a minimum reformat external media routinely. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org