Ok this started pretty recently. First off, my ipod was acting fine, i manage it with amarok and one day it wouldn't allow me to transfer any files to it. It just said it failed transferring a file. at first i thought it might be my iPod but then later i was transferring some stuff to a USB pen drive. It let me copy things onto it but when i moved stuff to the trash (i'm using gnome btw) and then try to empty the trash it says its a read only file system. I'm hoping these problems are related. If someone has any idea whats going on here i would greatly appreciate it. Also if you need any more info on my setup just ask. thanks in advance

Your usb drive is probably being mounted read only. Run mount command and it should tell you all mounted volumes and how they are mounted. Or, you are mounting it as root and trying to put files on there as a normal user.

No they are both mounted RW, i can copy things to my pen drive i just cant delete them, also the ipod worked fine until a while ago. and the mount command does say they are mounted rw