weird usb error between linux and windows

Aggraith · January 21, 2020

Can somebody help me plz every time i format my drive to fat or fat32 and i need to use it to transfer files between my linux device and my windows device i cant add anything to it in windows after i plug it into my linux machine.

its like after i use the linux machine my windows looses write permissions on the usb plz help

RageTester · January 21, 2020

Why don't you use a format that both linux and windows read without problems? Like NTFS, it also allows copying files that are bigger than 4GB in size...

unless you try to install OS on the USB stick that is...then you can still make multiple partitions and use NTFS for the one that is for file transfer only.

Aggraith · January 27, 2020

I tryed ntfs but it every time i use it i dont have write permitions on linux

wasab · January 27, 2020

6 hours ago, Aggraith said:

I tryed ntfs but it every time i use it i dont have write permitions on linux

That is proper behavior because you need root privilege to format so you run as root user and so permissions and ownership become root after the format. To fix this do a chown or a chmod on the directory.