Hum! Isn't there a common file system (FAT32, has been suggested to me)
whereby I can use Windows and Linux? Before I lost it, I had an antiquated
MP3 player that I'd cleaned out and used as a thumb drive and it handled
both OSs without complaint.

Bill Bennett.

Peter Chubb wrote:

> Sounds like you have a DOS file system on there -- it doesn't \
> obey UNIX file permissions.  You can reformat the drive as,
> say, ext2, but this will make the resulting filesystem unusable on any
> platform other than linux.
>
> To try this, do
>    mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 (or whatever the name of the drive is).
> Not while the drive is mounted!

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