USB thumb drive mounting as Read Only

baryonyx · 05-21-2006, 02:27 AM

Hi

I did a fresh install of Suse 10.1 today and it seems that any USB device I mount (ipod, thumb drive) gets mounted read only for me. As root I can read/write to the devices with no problem.

There aren't any entries in the fstab file for these devices so I'm at a loss of where to look to fix this problem. I checked the available groups and there is no usb group.

Any advice would be appreciated.

raskin · 05-22-2006, 12:17 AM

Well, add an entry to fstab.. Something like
/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat noexec,fmask=133,dmask=022,user,noauto 0 0
(my entry)

baryonyx · 05-24-2006, 09:54 PM

Thanks for the suggestion but when I add line to the fstab file and plug the drive in I get the following error:

Operation Failed:
/dev/sdb1 found in fstab

Incidently, when the device is mounted it shows like this:

/dev/sdb1 on /media/disk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev)

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

raskin · 05-25-2006, 12:57 AM

And if you mount it as user? Does it belong to you? Also try fmask=111,dmask=000 , though this is unsafe.