How can I change the ownership and permissionss of the files on a USB disk that has a FAT32 filesystem?
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Windows [filesystem] does not support UNIX-style permissions on individual files or folders. When mounting a FAT32 partition from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, files and directories are all given the same default permissions. The default permission mask applied to FAT32 volumes at mount time are:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 7 13:27 testfiles
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Ju...
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