USB flash drive changes to read-only on the fly

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Daniel Louw wrote:
> Regarding using NTFS, I can't. Like I said the PC's in the labs at 
> varsity uses a *very* old and ridiculously stable (I have not managed to 
> break them :-)) Debian OS. And there is no write support on the NTFS 
> driver for these PC's. I have asked about fixing it, but with the 
> varsity being more a bureaucracy than anything else, I am not going to 
> try again. And booting into Windows every time just to save all my new 
> work on the disk is not going to fly with me. So I'm stuck with the 
> FAT32 for now!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 

	What about using ext2 on the USB drive? And IIRC, there are drivers to 
allow your Windows PC to read the ext2. I believe I've used (using) 
something like ext2ifs on my laptop....

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