Problem with USB

[Mark Haney]

Pat Brown wrote:
> I looked this issue up in the archives, but while I found that others 
> seem to have this problem the one thread I found didn't give a solution. 
> When I insert my USB memory stick into my laptop it comes up as 
> read-only. I am no longer able to save files to it. I can't find 
> anything physical on the device which might have been set to read-only. 
> So does anyone have any ideas?
>
>   
Just for fun, have you tried to unmount it and remount it (manually) 
with the rw flag set?  Do you have anything in /etc/fstab that is 
associated to the mount point your flash drive is using?  What does 
/etc/mtab say when it's mounted?


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Mark Haney
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