USB problem - again

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Re: USB problem - again

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Just to be sure, is it write protected? Some USB sticks have a switch that will lock it from being written to.
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Re: USB problem - again

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It should say
The permissions of "diskx" could not be determined
on the permissions tab
and the volume tab should look like this
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He said USB "DRIVE", not "STICK". Just ignore my post. :oops: Are you able to mount it when it's plugged in?
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How do you mount it? Automagically or using mount? If you are using mount, try using pmount instead.
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Yours has a "ro" in the mount options. That means read only. You want a "rw", which means read/write. Check to see if it is listed in /etc/fstab. If you have booted the PC with the drive plugged in, then it will create an entry there. If so, check to see if it has the ro option instead of rw.
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@ drling1
Your disk also has the usefree option - it has nothing to do with your problem (I hope) It controls behavior when the disk is connected
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It is because of FAT32, strangely enough, almost all NTFS disks mounts automatically, while FAT disks are more problematic.
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Did you check in /etc/fstab to see if an entry was there for your USB drive?
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