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Subject: Re: Ext2/3 uid/gid support
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:48:52 +1000
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chgrp /dev/fd0 floppy


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Meusel" <meusel@codixx.de>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: Ext2/3 uid/gid support


> Am Montag, 11. M?rz 2002 09:47 schrieb Mike Fedyk:
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:44:44AM +0100, Erik Meusel wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > Just one little question:
> > >
> > > Why do ext2 and ext3 not support mount options uid and gid as all the
> > > other  filesystems do?
> >
> > because they have uid and gid within the filesystem itself for
directories,
> > files, pipes, etc stored in the inodes of the fs.  Same with any other
> > posix filesystem (which vfat, iso9660(not counting rockridge), hfs, etc
are
> > *not*).
> Sure.
> The reason why I ask is, I have two linux stations and I want to use ext2
> for the floppy disks to save space for fat vfat and so on. Now it would
> be nice to automatically mount my floppies with group "floppy", so that
> all the users, belonging to group "floppy", can read/write from/to disk.
>
> mfg, Erik
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