On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:17:34 -0600 Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote:
> On 12/25/08 01:47, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I got an external hard drive to do some backup and it was formatted as > > FAT32, which is a logical choice. But I thought why should I use FAT32. > > I have a Debian Testing and a Mac Machine. I could use a more advanced > > file system that has journalling, etc. > > > > So I decided to do a compromise. I formatted 100GB as Fat32 in case I > > need to plug it in to a windows machine. But the rest is in ext3 > > format. So I used gparted to do this. But now when I mount the ext3 > > partition, only root can copy files to it. Why is that? > > Unless there's something that you've neglected to mention, it's > because you haven't granted write permission on that directory tree > to any other user or group. > The only thing I could think of was I ran gparted as root. Maybe if I ran it off a live cd it would be different. > > Also, what other file systems should I use? > > The obvious answer: whatever is writable by MSFT, Linux & OSX. It > appears that ext2 can be be made to work on Windows and OSX. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#OS_support > Thanks for the reply. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
