User Permission on USB Stick

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Most USB sticks are formatted to FAT32, because this is a good "works on
just about everything" filesystem.



Unfortunately FAT does not contain unix-like permissions (or any
permissions at all possibly), so moving things to and from your disk is
always going to stuff permissions up.



The fix is to format it as ext3, but be aware that it will then not
work on Windows.  IIRC there is an ext3 filesystem you can install on
windows somewhere out there if you are just using a single windows
box.



The other option is putting multiple partitions on your USB drive (i.e.
one FAT32 and one ext3).



L.


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ltmon