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Comment by ajxs

10 hours ago

If I set a folder colour in Finder on my work MacBook, and then plug that USB drive into my personal computer which uses Thunar as a file browser on Debian, nothing would happen.

And? If you mount a Unix file system on another system, you may see ‘invisible’ fuels whose name starts with a period, may even see weird files named “.” or “..”, may not see ACLs, and may not see any file attributes such as user and group information.

In 1970 it already was not true that one could treat all filesystems the way Unix did, but it certainly isn’t true anymore today.