[ale] ext3 formatted USB disks

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 16:02 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
>> You just need to change the permissions on the mounted FS so that your
>> user can write to it. FAT does not support user permissions, that is
>> why it lets anyone alter the FS. 
> 
> That is what I thought.  I just created a directory on the FS owned by
> me.  That seems to work for now.
> 

	Hmm... I use a USB drive for my GPG and SSH keys on a daily basis...
It's an ext3 partition but it's encrypted using LUKS. I just let udev
handle the auto-mounting on my systems. I run Debian myself but the
drive has never had any problems working on Fedora systems either so
long as all the appropriate pre-reqs are met. In fact using my GNOME
desktop it detects the LUKS encrypted partition and prompts me for the
passphrase to unlock it then detects the ext3 partition underneath it
and mounts it as /media/usbdisk.

	

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