[SOLVED] read-only usb stick ???

[Mzwo]

hi all,

quick question: hardy refuses to copy stuff onto my usb stick, claiming it to be a read-only file system (tried for the first time today). works fine under windows, read AND write. i can't remember ever having specified the stick to be read only.

what to do?

many thanks,
Mzwo

PS: Filesystem on the stick: FAT

[skippy2222]

I'm having same issue with a external HD..... nightmare....

[northern lights]

What filesystem are the stick, and the external drive respectively, formatted as?

What distributions are you using?

[skippy2222]

fat32 disk, ful details of my issue here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=955279

[Stefanie]

have you tried

sudo chown -R [username]:[username] /media/[disk]
sudo chmod 755 /media/[disk]

?

[geirha]

It sounds like it is mounted as root, without giving users write access. Does /etc/fstab have an entry for it?

When it is mounted, can you run

mount

in a terminal and post the output? Also, the output of

ls -ld /media/disk

would be helpful, but replace /media/disk with the actualy mount point.

[northern lights]

Your fstab should contain an entry along the lines of

/dev/sdXX       /media/fat32       vfat       users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0

it gives ownership to root and read/write access to all users.
Thereupon you can set permissions to /media/fat32 (or your respective mountpoint) regularly.

If you don't understand what I'm suggesting, please post the output of

cat /etc/fstab/

and specify the mountpoint.

[skippy2222]

have you tried

sudo chown -R [username]:[username] /media/[disk]
sudo chmod 755 /media/[disk]

?

hi,
still ave same error, some more background.

on my hardy installation I have it set to auto login on my username, so I tried

sudo chown -R ed:ed /media/STOREX

then

sudo chmod 755 /media/STOREX

after that the folders were locked and error generated was Error removing file: Read-only file system

so i tried the same again with root as the username, same error

[skippy2222]

[QUOTE=northern lights;6011031]Your fstab should contain an entry along the lines of

/dev/sdXX       /media/fat32       vfat       users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0

my drive is called STOREX so I tried adding:

# media drive
/dev/sdb1 /media/STOREX vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0

n I get a cannot mount drive error saying mount point /media/STOREX does not exist

[northern lights]

I get a cannot mount drive error saying mount point /media/STOREX does not exist

Create it. Either via a file manager or by running

mkdir /media/STOREX

You can put anywhere you like, actually.

/media/
/mnt/
/mount/
/whatever-you-prefer/STOREX