I recently installed Truecrypt 7.0a on my Slackware 64 13.1 system. I have a USB thumb drive I encrypted on a Windows XP machine, and when I went to unencrypt it on my slackware machine, it worked, but it labels it as READ ONLY. Nothing is checked off to make it read only. When I mount it, even root can't change the permissions to make it writeable. I can read and copy everything off of it, but I can't write to it at all. When I unencrypt it on the Windows XP machine, I don't have a problem.

I assume it has to maybe do with the fact that it's NTFS and with linux, and encrypted USB thumb drive, and truecrypt, maybe it won't allow you to write to it. Is this correct? If I reformat and encrypt it was FAT32, should it work ok?

If you format it, you're going to lose everything on it so it might "work ok" but you'd want to back up the files first.

But what I'm concerned about, is what do you have to hide that you need to use truecrypt? o.O

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This sounds like the decrpyted volume is being mounted with ntfs rather than ntfs-3g.

@Konphine : Nothing important, but if I lose the drive, I don't want someone plugging it in and seeing all my stuff.
@allend : I'll check and see, thanks!

What really concerns me is why do you think it is any of your business?

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cwizardzone:
It's called teasing...