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

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> No, He meant NTFS.  No matter how well NTFS works in Linux, it does not
> support Unix permissions, and in that regard, is handled the same as FAT.
> (And while you can use NTFS for compatability with Windows, I think you have
> a very loose definition of adequately.  Suffice to say, I would not suggest
> using NTFS *unless* either the filesystem is primarily for use by Windows,
> or Windows compatability is required as well as large file (or more exotic
> file names) support.


Ok, here's an experiment to try. Create some files. Make sure they
have different attributes, such as owner, group, perms, etc. Now copy
them to an NTFS partition. Now copy them back to the original machine
in a different location. Now compare them.

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