Why USB become read-only suddenly?

BW-userx · 12-24-2016, 09:29 AM

regardless of cache or whatever, this is still wrong. If a user formats a medium it should not automatically become read only. I have to admit command line formatting I do not do, so I have no experience with it.

I use Gparted and have never seen such a thing. I know GParted has to have root privileges to run. but I have never seen Gparted leaving it read only for a user when it was finished.

But now that I think about it, then everything else I do with the USB Stick still needs root privages.Because I usally am dd 'ing an iso onto the USB Stick or some such thing that needs root to do it.

BW-userx · 12-24-2016, 12:41 PM

HAHA on me,

I ended up having to actualy use a USB Stick after formatting it, it got stuck on root, wouldn't let me as a user do anything with it so I blasted it with this;
using my file manager to get the path to the USB Stick

Code:

userx@voider~\>> su
Password: 
# chown userx:userx /run/media/userx/36e41e6b-f47e-4d06-bb88-2697168716b4/ -R
#

now I own it.