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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Transfer to flash drive makes things executable - what gives?

It seems that, whenever I put something on my USB flash drive (Kingston DataTraveler 1 GB) the executable bit for it gets set. So, if try to open a text file that's been on the drive, Gnome asks me if I want to run it, etc. It's especially annoying because Gnome lacks the ability to recursively change the permissions on things.

(Yes, I've tried using chmod -x -R for that, it doesn't work. As user it complains about not having permission, and as root via sudo it makes files disappear.)

So, how do I make my USB drive stop making everything executable? I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to happen.

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: Transfer to flash drive makes things executable - what gives?

That's the trouble with FAT filesystem for ya. It doesn't support any reasonable permissions. You could probably solve this by mounting it with special umask ('man 8 mount', search for umask).

Slammer64

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From: Ozark Mountains of Missouri

Registered: 2007-07-28

Posts: 113

Re: Transfer to flash drive makes things executable - what gives?

Might also try formatting a flashdrive for use with ext2/ext3 or reisersfs.

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Transfer to flash drive makes things executable - what gives?

Bleh. Can WinNT machines handle JFFS2?