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Use FAT32 or FAT16 on cross-platform external hard drives
Authored by: Bemopolis on Oct 22, '03 12:29:53PM

I had this same problem with my FW drive between my laptop
and the work desktop. The problem is that the UID on your
accounts on each machine is different; i.e., on my laptop my
UID is 501, but it was 507 on the desktop. The solution is,
of course, to set the UIDs of all of your accounts the same.

The process is straightforward (one line if you're clever) but
involved, as the system has to change the UID on all of your
files and directories. As such, the process can be ridiculously
dangerous -- and requires admin privileges, naturally. Your
sysadmin should know how to do this (and given the prospect
of more midnight calls, it is in his/her interest to figure it out
quickly if not).

Bemopolis



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