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  1. Fixing Sansa attributes - LinLog
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    One thing that is useful to know in case the trainers come to you looking for help with their virus-addled USB drives. A fairly common thing these viruses do is mark the directories as hidden and then create files with identical names. It wouldn’t be a big deal except the computers that are locked down administratively aren’t allowed to show hidden files, so you have to use your own laptop. Naturally Linux completely ignores the "hidden" attribute on files, but you can use mtools to change the attributes, even on a USB drive, by creating a mtoolsrc file like this or, I think, directly using mattrib -i /dev/sdb1 or whatever. To remove system and hidden on everything, which is probably what you want to do: mattrib -S -H -/ S:/.

  3. Pingback: Diego Escalante Urrelo: Removing the hidden/system bit of vfat/fat32 files on GNU/Linux | Linux-Support.com

    After some googling I got this solved by using mtools:

  4. Pingback: Removing the hidden/system bit of vfat/fat32 files on GNU/Linux | Diego Escalante Urrelo

    After some googling I got this solved by using mtools: