mounting external usb drives: solved

Mon Aug 4 23:17:54 UTC 2008

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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