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gagan_mishra

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Registered: 2009-03-11

Posts: 5

[Solved] Read-Only mounting of USB drives

Hello all,

This issue has been raised in many threads, but still I am unable to sort it out!

My USB drives (pen drive/ Hard Disk) are always mounted in read-only mode. These are in VFAT filesystem, so I dont think ntfs-3g is needed. But I installed that anyways.
I also tried with disabling auto mounting in dconf-editor and keeping a rule file under /etc/udev/rules.d/ as mentioned in the wiki.

Still no luck.

Any ideas ?

Thanks!

Last edited by gagan_mishra (2012-03-03 19:11:09)

hadrons123

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From: chennai

Registered: 2011-10-07

Posts: 1,249

Re: [Solved] Read-Only mounting of USB drives

what is the output of ...

mount | column -t

gagan_mishra

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Registered: 2009-03-11

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved] Read-Only mounting of USB drives

This is the output :

/dev/sda1         on  /media/2004CEA904CE80F0  type  fuseblk                (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdc1         on  /media/ARCH_201108       type  udf                    (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=77,iocharset=utf8,uhelper=udisks)

Here /dev/sdc1 is the USB drive. As you can see, its mounted as 'ro' (read only).

Thanks!

hadrons123

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From: chennai

Registered: 2011-10-07

Posts: 1,249

Re: [Solved] Read-Only mounting of USB drives

UDF is read only.You need to format the disk to make it read, write. Try with Gparted.

gagan_mishra

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Registered: 2009-03-11

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved] Read-Only mounting of USB drives

Thanks! I formatted the USB stick.