On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:48 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:02:49 -0800 (PST) > Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > > > I never had this problem with Ubuntu or when I was trying Debian > > > testing. But when I installed Fedora 12, and now with OpenSuse 11.2, > > > when I plug in my USB drive Nautilus won't let me write to it because > > > it is read-only. > > > > Sometimes I get that when the entry in /etc/fstab does not include the > > 'users' option. > > > /dev/sdb1 on /media/USB Drive type vfat > > > > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=1000,gid=100,shortname=lower,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush) > > > > I don't know why the options are in parentheses or why there are so > many. > > On my system /etc/fstab has two mountable USB devices: > > > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/thumb vfat noauto,users 0 0 > > /dev/sda /mnt/meizu vfat noauto,users 0 0 > > > > and both work for me as a user. > > > > Suggest that you change /etc/fstab to have only the two options I use > and > > see if there's a difference. > > Thanks for the suggestion. Things have changed. > > Due to the overwhelming bugs in Gnome 2.8.0 I have wiped out OpenSuse 11.2 > and installed OpenSuse 11.1. Hopefully (knocking on wood, throwing salt over > shoulder, crossing fingers) things will be much better. > > Before I wiped out 11.2 I needed to copy a couple of folders to something, > one being my Mail folder and the other being the live CD of 11.1 that I had > downloaded. The latter could easily be reproduced, but I really needed the > Mail folder. I have two other USB sticks, an ancient 512 MB and an almost as > old 1 GB. Both mounted as RW. I got the mail folder on one, and the 11.1 ISO > on the other, although I had to delete the PLUG flyers to make room. They're > on my old hard disk and I have other backups, so not to worry. > > Now that I am running with 11.1 I stuck in the offending USB drive. > Nautilus popped up a window displaying the contents, but every single item > had a padlock on it. From the command line "ls -la" shows that every single > item on the drive is owned by jjj (that's me!) of the group root (not me!). > > Somehow, while using this drive and installing various different distros > the ownership has gotten messed up. And it is still not mounted read/write. > Even as root I cannot copy a file to it. Yet the mount command still says it > is (rw). > > The thing is that I use this drive to transfer things to professors and > other students at PSU. I can probably fix /etc/fstab, but what happens when > I hand it to someone else with a Windows or Mac computer? > > Maybe I should just copy everything off of it to a DVD and reformat it as > vfat. > > Sorry for the lack of linewrap. Sylpheed won't install on OpenSuse 11.1 and > I had to install Claws Mail instead. I can't find the button for Linewrap. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > I had a USB drive that suddenly went read only no matter what voodoo I did and it turned out it was bad. I would make copies of your data off it and see if formatting or failing that, dd'ing /dev/zero to it to see if it solves the issue. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
