USB memory sticks get mounted as read only

[James Takac]

On Thursday 29 November 2007 09:30:29 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 29/11/2007, Brian Astill <bastill at adam.com.au> wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:44:52 pm Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > Some USB memory sticks get mounted as read only. Why? How to
> > > fix this: 1) So it won't happen again?
> > > 2) So that I can write to disks that get mounted this way?
> >
> > On my AMD64 Gutsy the effect is intermittent.
> > I could not get my stick recognised at all.  Then  it  was  seen,
> > but read-only and I  couldn't even copy from it.
> > Yesterday I  tried my USB hard drive with success and  later the
> > stick was OK.  Still OK today.  Go figure.
>
> That mimicks my machine's behaviour as well, under Feisty.
>
> Dotan Cohen
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Hi Guys

Maybe once it's mounted right click on it's icon and check the ownership and 
permissions. Likely this is the issue. You may have to change them as super 
user

James