On 2016-08-30, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:42:05 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > And why use exfat if you use linux? It is just not needed at all. >> >> I agree. If you want to transport something between Linux systems, >> use ext2/3 and use "mount" options to handle the permission issues. > > You can't control ownership and permissions of existing files with mount > options on a Linux filesystem. See man mount.
Oops, you're right. I guess the options I was thinking of don't work for ext2/3. They do work for fat, cifs, hfs, hpfs, ntfs, iso9660, and various others. I very rarely put a writable filesystem on a USB flash drive. I treat them either as a CD/DVD for installation ISO images, or I use them as "tapes" and just tar stuff to/from them. I do make a point of using consistent UID/GID values across multiple installations, so on the rare occasions I do put a writable filesystem on a flash drive, it "just works". -- Grant
