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

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Dec 16, 2013 11:27 PM, "Florian Diesch" <diesch at spamfence.net> wrote:
> If a file system doesn't support unix style file permission (like NTFS)
> permissions are emulated and you can change them by mount options but
> not by using chmod and chown.

I think you meant to sat FAT/FAT32. NTFS works adequately under Linux, and
is mostly just missing file system tools.
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