On 18/06/12 11:12, James Knott wrote:
C wrote:
Aha.. but.. as I discovered with a little tinkering (which reminded me what I did so very long ago) you can plug in the ext4 formatted USB drive, do a chown -R $USER:$GROUP /media/USBLabel and it will remember that ownership for next time the device is connected to that computer. You can unmount and remount and it'll retain the tweaked permissions.
However, that will only work on the computer you issued that command on.
Sorry, but my personal experience is otherwise. I have a number of USB memory sticks which were formatted on my old 32-bit computer. They are formatted in ext4. I use these same sticks on my wife's computer to backup her /.mozilla and /.thunderbird directories - of course she has a totally different username etc. End of April I built my new 64-bit computer and I use these same sticks on it - no reformatting, no nothing. For it all to work, after formatting the USB stick run the appropriate 'chown -R.....' and the 'chmod -R....' commands on it. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 KDE 4.8.3 and kernel 3.4.2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org