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SubjectRe: Ext2/3 uid/gid support
On Mar 11, 2002  10:22 +0100, Erik Meusel wrote:
> 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.

You will find that:
a) FAT uses less space than ext2 on a floppy for the same amount of files
b) you don't need to mount a FAT floppy if you don't want (you can use
mcopy/mdir/etc for quick operations)
c) you can read a FAT floppy from a Windows machine if needed

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
\ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert

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