Using USB key as real home and possible encryption?

Jamon Camisso jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Sun Apr 27 20:58:12 UTC 2014


On 04/27/2014 02:08 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:06:37PM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote
> 
>> On mount, the permissions of contained directories and files are then
>> used if you use ext4.
> 
>   Isn't this the case regardless of the fs type?  I want to use ext2fs,
> because I understand that a journalling fs is rough on a USB key or SD
> card or any kind of flash drive.

Mount lets you specify uid/gid on some filesystem types e.g fat32,
though I haven't used any fs where I've needed to be explicit.

Cheers, Jamon

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