On 2020-11-25 15:05, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 11/25/20 3:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Every now and then I buy a flash drive and find that when I mount it
> it's owned by root and read only except by root. I can, of course,
> change that by using chown and chmod, but that only lasts until I
> unmount the drive. Generally, I need to reformat the drive to get it
> working properly. And, it's not just Fedora; my sister uses Xubuntu,
> and has the same issue. Does anybody know a way to keep this from
> happening, or to fix it without reformatting?
What filesystem is on it and how are you mounting it?
--> gparted: select the flash drive from the pull down in
the upper right
--> View
--> device information
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