Re: Ext2/3 uid/gid support

Andreas Dilger (adilger@clusterfs.com)
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:44:11 -0700


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

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