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Permissions and USB key drives
Authored by: wackazong on May 25, '04 11:06:52AM

so, if you use the disk image, how can you mount that on a windows pc? and if you cannot, why dont you just format the whole thing as HFS? ok, you get the encryption, but that was not really the purpose of the hint, was it?

I always use the .zip - archive trick, works nicely for me.



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Authored by: SOX on May 26, '04 11:39:19AM

If you use a sparse disk image it will inflate and deflate to use only as much of the key drive as needed for its contents. the remainder of the USB key drive is thiu available for use in communicating with PCs and other things that dont use HFS. So when you need to keep permissions and other info, you place it on the sparse image and when you dont care you place it outside the sparse.

perhaps an even better idea would be to format the sparse image as UFS so that way you could possibly use it with Linix machines that can mount spareimages and keep your permisions for them too.



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