[ubuntu-in] filesystem queries queries for external drive

[Rohit V Bhute]

Hi friends. I am in a bit of confusion.

1. I have prepared an external drive by putting a 500GB drive in a USB 
enclosure. I plan to format it with JFS.

I was testing with a flash drive. I formatted it with JFS and plugged it 
in. It mounted correctly, but with root permissions ie. as a normal 
user, I couldn't do anything useful. How can I make this behave like a 
FAT32 formatted drive where a normal user can read write by default?

2. I also have a 100GB partition on the internal disk which I'm thinking 
of converting to JFS.

Any suggestions from you all? Pros, cons, experiences?

Regards.
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Rohit V. Bhute
http://rvbhute.org