On Nov 28, 2007 7:14 AM, Dotan Cohen <<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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? Unfortunately, I do not have a test case at the moment. But when I do, it is usually urgent that I mount the drive and do what I need. Therefore, first steps in troubleshooting, and possible solutions, would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance. Dotan Cohen <a href="http://what-is-what.com" target="_blank"> http://what-is-what.com</a> <a href="http://gibberish.co.il" target="_blank">http://gibberish.co.il</a> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank"></a></blockquote><div> Are the disks ntfs-formatted? If so, try installing NTFS Configuration Manager (package ntfs-config) and running it, enabling NTFS for external devices. I know that Gutsy is supposed to mount NTFS partitions as r/w, but I don't know if it works the same way for external drives. </div></div>