What distro are you using? I use Mandriva and Fedora, and that doesn't happen in either one of those by default. Now, one thing that *has* happened to me was that I once manually added a device by editing /etc/fstab as -ro and forgot about it. Then, every time I put something in that got stuck on that sd device got that name and was read-only. Some other things that have happened to me in the past with SD cards, not USB sticks:
1) I had inadvertently left on a physical ro switch. Some SD cards have a little slider that will lock them, making them ro. 2) My SD card reader was bad. I was using one of those 23-in-1 card readers, and my SD card always kept coming up "read-only." When I switched card readers, it came up fine. I took the bad card reader to a Windows box and it also had problems, though somewhat different ones. 3) Bad driver. On another one of those zillion-in-1 card readers, I kept getting a card loaded as read only -- and it also had problems reading from the card. I checked /var/log/messages and there were clearly problems with the kernel figuring out what was going on with having so many different readers on one device. Once again, I switch to an older 5-in-1 reader and it worked fine. You might look at /var/log/messages and see what is getting written when the device is plugged in. You might see some helpful error messages. You might also check /etc/fstab and see what's going on there. If you see "device is locked... mounting read-only" or something like that in /var/log/messages, then the device is telling your box that it wants to be read only, and the problem will be in the device, not the distro. On Feb 6, 1:40 pm, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: > OK. This has been getting on my nerves for a long time now. Most of > the distros mount a usb disk or mp3 player as read-only. If I try to > create or delete files on the device, they disappear if I unplug the > device and then plug it back in. > > I've tried unmounting the volumes and then mounting them again. I've > also tried using chown command, > > chown phil /media/disk > > Sometimes I had some success, but it's hard to remember which steps I > took. Usually, I just end up going into knoppix because it allows you > to change the read/write permissions of the device pretty easily. But > this is *really* annoying :( -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
