Can't Write to USB Devices...

[Cabhan]

I have a USB key and an MP3 player. I've used the Key before on Linux, and pulled things off, but I've just now realized that I am unable to write to it. When I mount it, ls shows me its permissions as:

drwxr--r--

When I attempt to remove a file on my USB key, I get the error:

rm: cannot remove `adblock.txt': Read-only file system

I'm doing this through the terminal as root (thus I should have write permissions), and it still won't work. I also modprobed for the sd_mod module (something about writing to SCSI drives), which worked, but I still can't write to the key.

My dmesg identifies the device as:

Vendor: LEXAR Model: DIGITAL FILM Rev: /W1.
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

If anyone has any suggestions for getting this to work, I'd be grateful.

[dylunio]

do you have rw set in the fstab line for the key?

for mounting/unmounting etc flash devices look here http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials...ial-26510.html

you could also try resetting the permissions with chmod 700, or chmod 770.

hope this helps

[Cabhan]

Alright, the problem was that instead of "rw", I had "ro" set in the fstab line. I changed that, and it's fixed. Thanks.