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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?

rom58
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Flash drives tend to be formatted as FAT32 which does not support user permissions.

Type

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.

linuxbun
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