Following up on my earlier post, > 1. I have prepared an external drive by putting a 500GB drive in a USB > enclosure. I plan to format it with JFS.
The drive will hold mostly media files and backups - the scenario is few but large files. I'm basing my selection on this - http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 I would have taken XFS, except XFS is unkind to power failures and hard-reboots. I wouldn't want to take a chance with my power supply going down or machine hard-restarting. JFS is the next best. > I was testing with a flash drive. I formatted it with JFS and plugged it > in. It mounted correctly, but with root permissions ie. as a normal > user, I couldn't do anything useful. How can I make this behave like a > FAT32 formatted drive where a normal user can read write by default? I did a 'sudo chown rohit:rohit -R rohit_sc' where rohit_sc was the mount point (in /media) and that did the trick - I could copy, delete, etc on the drive. Do I have to run this command every time I plug in the drive or can it be automated? > 2. I also have a 100GB partition on the internal disk which I'm thinking > of converting to JFS. Earlier, I mounted it to /data and created a folder 'rohit' inside /data and changed owner of 'rohit' to myself. Is it ok to change owner of /data itself to myself so I can read write directly inside /data? Is it recommended? > Any suggestions from you all? Pros, cons, experiences? Regards. -- Rohit V. Bhute http://rvbhute.org -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
