> A common complaint is that the partition can be seen but the permissions are wrong.
This is probably most annoying problem with Linux. (Mac OS X handles it perfectly).
Formatting external hard drive in native Linux FS results in unwelcome surprise: after connecting your hard drive to somebody's else computer you find that you can *not* access your files because you do not have permissions.
Permissions?? On portable media??? This is just silly.
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Posted by: Dummy00001 on June 28, 2008 04:17 PMThis is probably most annoying problem with Linux. (Mac OS X handles it perfectly).
Formatting external hard drive in native Linux FS results in unwelcome surprise: after connecting your hard drive to somebody's else computer you find that you can *not* access your files because you do not have permissions.
Permissions?? On portable media??? This is just silly.
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