Re: mounting external usb drives: solved

[Mikkel]

Gerhard Magnus wrote:
>  
>  Everything works. The good news I wasn't expecting is that the
>  filesystems keep their permissions through the unmounting/mounting of a
>  reboot. In case anyone wonders, the extra "1" in "chmod 1777" blocks
>  users (other than root) from deleting the folder or changing its
>  permissions.
>   
Because it is an ext3 file system, the permissions are saved as part 
of the file system. (Think of the permissions on /.) Access of the 
USB drive is the same as the rest of your file system.

Mikkel
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