Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:44:11 -0700 | Subject | Re: Ext2/3 uid/gid support |
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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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