I feel like I'm missing something really basic, but I copied a bunch of files off my Windows 10 machine to a USB drive. I'm trying to copy some of those files to my Debian laptop & noticed all the files have execute permissions .. which is no big deal but they're MP3 files which aren't programs so it seems like they shouldn't have executable file permission set. But how do I turn it off???
lee@an17 /media/lee/Windows10/2025_Sep_10/MyMusic $ ls -l smoke-detector-1.mp3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 lee lee 323797 Dec 29 2020 smoke-detector-1.mp3 lee@an17 /media/lee/Windows10/2025_Sep_10/MyMusic $ chmod -x smoke-detector-1.mp3 chmod: smoke-detector-1.mp3: new permissions are rw-r-xr-x, not rw-r--r-- lee@an17 /media/lee/Windows10/2025_Sep_10/MyMusic $ chmod go-x smoke-detector-1.mp3 lee@an17 /media/lee/Windows10/2025_Sep_10/MyMusic $ ls -l smoke-detector-1.mp3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 lee lee 323797 Dec 29 2020 smoke-detector-1.mp3 "chmod go-x /tmp/foo" works, so what's the problem with something on /media??? lee@an17 /tmp $ ls -l foo -rw-rwxrwx 1 lee lee 0 Nov 29 19:11 foo lee@an17 /tmp $ chmod go-x foo lee@an17 /tmp $ ls -l foo -rw-rw-rw- 1 lee lee 0 Nov 29 19:11 foo Thanks Lee
