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I plug in my drive and it mounts but I can't delete or add anything. It says its a "read only disk". How can I change the permissions so I ...
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    I plug in my drive and it mounts but I can't delete or add anything. It says its a "read only disk". How can I change the permissions so I can edit my work on it.

    Using Ubuntu 5.04

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    what does your
    Code:
    /etc/fstab
    look like?
    Brilliant Mediocrity - Making Failure Look Good

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    when you mount it use the -rw flag

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    /dev/mapper/casper-snapshot / auto noatime 0 0
    tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0

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