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belal

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Registered: 2015-03-26

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[Solved]Arch Linux Gnome writing to usb disk destination is read only

Hi
i Have installed Arch Linux latest image 1-3-2015  not using Evolution Linux or any GUI installer
i installed Arch Linux using command line
i have gnome 3.14
each time i try to write movie to usb flash or usb external hard disk
the error says
the destination disk is read only

how to change this
?

Last edited by belal (2015-04-04 20:58:54)

w201

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Registered: 2012-10-04

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Re: [Solved]Arch Linux Gnome writing to usb disk destination is read only

I would check file permissions on the usb

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved]Arch Linux Gnome writing to usb disk destination is read only

Moving to NC...

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ewaller

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Re: [Solved]Arch Linux Gnome writing to usb disk destination is read only

Just a WAG [1], but I bet the volumes are in an obscure format from the US Pacific Northwest that Linux has to be coaxed into mounting so that they can be written.

[1] Wild Assed Guess.

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newguy

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Re: [Solved]Arch Linux Gnome writing to usb disk destination is read only

I'm curious. Is the filesystem on the USB, ntfs ?

If yes, did you install NTFS-3G ? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G. Happened to me 8 days ago .

EDIT - Sorry for the repost using the same solution as my above post. Didn't see his link. Just surfed through the posts for the word "NTFS-3g" and it wasn't there.

Last edited by newguy (2015-03-31 07:51:48)

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ewaller

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Re: [Solved]Arch Linux Gnome writing to usb disk destination is read only

...Sorry for the repost using the same solution as my above post. Didn't see his link. Just surfed through the posts for the word "NTFS-3g" and it wasn't there.

I did obfuscate it a bit

Last edited by ewaller (2015-03-31 13:53:45)

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belal

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Re: [Solved]Arch Linux Gnome writing to usb disk destination is read only

solved using chown change owner to me and everything is working fine thank you all for your help and care