[Windaria]

OK... I have a USB drive that I am hoping to copy files to, delete files on, just basically use. I can use it just fine when I am in windows, but when I am in Linux, while it detects it fine and I can browse it and all... for some completely unknown reason it always mounts it as read-only by default. Why on earth?????

So... is there any way to make it mount USB drives as read/write by default? I mean I don't care what USB drive it is, any that I plug into my computer I want to be able to access...

[rudie_rage]

look at your /etc/fstab

does the line for your usb drive have an 'ro' somewhere in it? ro=read only... remove that and it might work.

might not work either, I'm not an expert

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by Windaria

OK... I have a USB drive that I am hoping to copy files to, delete files on, just basically use. I can use it just fine when I am in windows, but when I am in Linux, while it detects it fine and I can browse it and all... for some completely unknown reason it always mounts it as read-only

I have many external USB drives that I use, and they work fine with SuSE-10.0, 10.1 and 10.2.

A key question: What format is in use on your USB drives? If NTFS then you will likely have problems writing to the drive, as by default SuSE does not provide good write access to NTFS formatted drives.

Recently (within the past year) to provide SuSE with reasonable read/write access to hard drives formatted in NTFS, SuSE users have been using the application/driver ntfs-3g.

You can find installation information here:
NTFS - openSUSE

[Windaria]

rudie_rage brilliant... I didn't think that the fstab would work for it since I thought it was a device by device kind of file, but it has usbdrive as a line so I modified that and put "defaults" instead of "autofs" in the security column and it just works now. I mean I really don't care about security on a plugged-in USB device anyway, so great!

Also, oldcpu, this is true... that is why I use ntfs-3g already for my NTFS partitions. Vista is my first one (i came on the bloody computer and I keep it there ONLY for compatibility issues incase people expect me to run a bloody windows program), openSuse is my second, and my third (5th as far as the OS is concerned though, due to the magic of it enumerating extended and swap as sda 3 and 4) is my data partition, which is NTFS just so I can use it to store the bulk of whatever I throw on the computer in case I need to move it between Vista and openSuse.

As a result I had to figure out the whole NTFS volumes thing pretty early... but good thinking, had I not that may have been an issue.