Good day all.
I am a new to linux redhat and fedora core, and I am having problem with my 1 GB Samsung Mighty Drive USB flash drive which is mounting as read-only filesystem.
I had a look at the fstab files and it ok.
I have no problem with other usb flash drives, and even it's working fine in Win 200 systems.

1. Any ideas what is causing this for the FAT32 file-system to read-only?
2. How can i make it not to mount as read-only file-system, and make it mount as usual?
3. Or is it a known problem with the above usb flash drive model or type?

Any possible solutions are most welcome and will be greatly appriciated.


RegardsGood day all.
I am a new to linux redhat and fedora core, and I am having problem with my 1 GB Samsung Mighty Drive USB flash drive which is mounting as read-only filesystem.
I had a look at the fstab files and it ok.
I have no problem with other usb flash drives, and even its working fine in W2K system.

1. How can i make it not to mount as read-only file-system, and make it mount as usual?
2. Or is it a known problem with the above usb flash drive model or type?


Regards
Good day all.
I am a new to linux redhat and fedora core, and I am having problem with my 1 GB Samsung Mighty Drive USB flash drive which is mounting as read-only filesystem.
I had a look at the fstab files and it ok.
I have no problem with other usb flash drives, and even its working fine in W2K system.

1. How can i make it not to mount as read-only file-system, and make it mount as usual?
2. Or is it a known problem with the above usb flash drive model or type?


Regards


Robs

I am not at my linux box right now but it is going to be something like this.
man mount and you will get a little better idea.
The key to having read write access is making sure you are running them as your userid and groupid. There is a way to just type userid.groupid, but I forgot. The other key is specifying rw access or exec access for read write and execute access.

I have another post somewhere on this site in which explains this better and I know works, but have to go, hope this helps. If this doesnt work and noone else responds, I would search this site because I have seen this post plenty of times here, or google.com/linux. Hopefully I will be back on LQ tommorrow sometime to confirm it worked for you.

All devices are mounted under /media in FC5 (dunno about FC4)

Try

mount -t vfat rw umask=0 /dev/*your device* /media/*your folder*

I'll try this as root user, however how about non-root user trying with usermount or using the Disk Management tool under Systems Tools?
The same problem. mounted as read-only file-system.

Usually when usb flash inserted into the usb port, a usb icon usually appear on the desktop (boot root and non-root users), right? This does not appear at all for the mentioned above device.

This may be totally unrelated, but the other day I put a USB thumb drive into a Slackware box. The drive was formatted as FAT16, and on it I had copied a "My Pictures" folder from a Windows (NTFS partition). The drive was mounted as rw, I could create new files and modify them, but for some reason I couldn't modify the "My Pictures" folder or its contents. The only thing I can think of that might have caused it is Windows setting some kind of strange folder permission/attribute when the directory was copied across - it didn't appear with the default directory icon in Windows, but instead with the "My Pictures" icon.

As I said, probably totally unrelated but I found it strange.