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radoslav192

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Registered: 2014-01-24

Posts: 8

[SOLVED] Cannot Write on USB stick

Hello

After Installing Arch (from USB 16 GB, ADATA C103, USB 3.0) I cannot use my USB stick -

1) first when I tried to write on Windows I saw that the size of the USB is only 30 MB

2) I solved the first, but now I cannot mount with RW

the usb stick is /dev/sdb

 
sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt

Output: mount: /dev/sdb is write-protected, mounting read-only

What can I do ???

Edit: Tnx to all I made a new partition and evrything is Ok now. Tnx

Last edited by radoslav192 (2014-03-05 19:37:58)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot Write on USB stick

Are you sure that /dev/sdb is the pendrive?
Have you tried mounting /dev/sdb1 instead?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,797

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot Write on USB stick

Any chance that the file system is NTFS?  Is it possible you have not installed ntfs-3g?

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radoslav192

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Registered: 2014-01-24

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot Write on USB stick

Are you sure that /dev/sdb is the pendrive?
Have you tried mounting /dev/sdb1 instead?

I actually do not have an partiotion sdb1 (only sdb)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot Write on USB stick

the size of the USB is only 30 MB

You might be looking at a second partition on the USB drive, e.g. I had a USB pendrive which had a small 2nd, *read-only* partition, that held some Windows-related drivers.

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot Write on USB stick

Does nobody read OP anymore? USB had the Arch installer on it, which involves some non-standard partitioning.

@radoslav192

Manually re-partition your thumb drive with fdisk, etc., then format the partition.

Edit: had to remove the log from my eye.

Last edited by alphaniner (2014-03-04 19:33:12)

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