[NTLUG:Discuss] problem w/ copying to a floppy drive

[David Stanaway]

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 12:30, mike wrote:
> I vote for msdos floppies too (if possible).. ext2fs on floppy retains 
> permissions.. I've run into having slightly different user id's on different 
> boxes (for security reasons) and not being able to get my file open on the 
> receiving box. 
> 
> Its easy enough to go back to the sending box and chmod. However, when the 
> boxes are a car trip apart, this is pretty frustrating.  (and NOONE gets root 
> acess at my job.)
> 
> Anything you're writing to floppy you probably want to strip permissions from 
> anyway.  MSDOS conversion takes care fo this for you, its not another step 
> you have to remember.

.. and if you need to retain permissions, you can always use UMSDOS
mode.

mount -t umsdos

Its not such a bad option.


--
David Stanaway
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