Read-only access on mp3 player, how to fix? Addenum

[John DeCarlo]

On 11/21/05, Anthony Dean <adean75 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble getting a Sandisk Sansa mp3 player (the e240 model)
> to work with Ubuntu (Breezy). At first, it let me copy files to and from
> it (upon plugging it in via the USB port... it's supposed to work as a
> removable USB drive), but then it suddenly wouldn't let me delete or
> copy files to or from the player, giving me "read only disk" error
> messages.



/dev/sda1 on /media/sandisk type vfat
> (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,user=<myusername>)


Have you tried copying or deleting using sudo? (sudo rm
/media/sandisk/song.mp3)

It seems like your fstab entry is correct, based on the above report from
mount.

You can also use fsck.vfat to see if the file system is messed up.




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John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
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