New Files on USB Drive Have Full Write Permissions

Question

When I create a new file on my removable drive (flash drive), it is created with write permissions for everyone (-rwxrwxrwx). This also happens when I copy a file to the drive that didn't originally have such permissions.

I don't recall this being the default behavior. Is something configured wrong on my drive?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 19 '16 at 18:27

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Flash drives tend to be formatted as FAT32 which does not support user permissions.

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sudo blkid

in a terminal, and each drive will have an entry TYPE='something', if the drive shows 'vfat' then that would be the reason.

answered Oct 19 '16 at 18:27

linuxbun

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Running blkid produces TYPE="ntfs". – rom58 Oct 19 '16 at 19:09
Just found this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/11840/how-do-i-use-chmod-on-an-ntfs-or-fat32-partition. I think it answers my question – rom58 Oct 19 '16 at 19:11

New Files on USB Drive Have Full Write Permissions

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