Why is mounting a USB disk in a usable manner so difficult?

[Liam Proven]

On 16 December 2013 20:44, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> The fix is permanent for the drive, but it may not work on other
> machines as expected. The owner is actually not "bladernr" but "1000"
> (if your UID is "1000" like it is for the first user created on the
> Ubuntu system). The files on the disk may be owned by me, if you plug
> your drive into my machine. I don't think there is an easy way to make
> it work like the usual USB stick which is fromatted with FAT32


Agreed -- I was going to post more or less the same explanation.


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