jumpdrive is read only
 

ok, have a lexar 128 mb secure jumpdrive. I can read and write to it no prob under windows, and can read it under nix no prob. I cannot write to it under linux though. Tried editing my fstab, tried different mount options, all to no avail. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. TIA

Try changing the permissions of your mount point for the jumpdrive. If, for example, your mount point is called '/mnt/jumpdrive', then open a console as root and enter the following command:

chmod 777 /mnt/jumpdrive

You treat the jumpdrive like any other vfat partition. Add umask=000 option to the /etc/fstab option.

BTW on the previous post use the chmod command with the drive unmounted.

well, no luck. can't chmod, permission denied, even as root. while I belive my fstab is correct, could someone post the correct line for sda1 as jump. Thanks again.

As a principle of troubleshooting, it would be better for you to post your /etc/fstab lines here, so we can see what is going on in your computer.

I recently got one of these (Apacer HandySteno) working. My fstab line is:

Before that I had to delete the old partitions with fdisk, and then make one new vfat partition with mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1.
You may not have to do this.

interestingly enough, my fstab line reads EXACTLY as above. Hmm, curious.... any other ideas?

What are the permissions of /mnt/flash?

ls -l /mnt/flash

drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 jump

Oops...

ls -l /mnt

Something is definitely amiss here, as root doesn't get permission denied for anything. How did you open a console as root? Directly, or did you open one as youself and then use the su command? If the latter, if you did not use 'su -' (ie, with a space and a dash after it) then you would not have had root's path permissions, and that could explain why you had permission denied.

From the output of 'ls -l /mnt/jump', it is owned by root and 'others' don't have write permission; that's why you're seeing this problem. If you open a console as root - either directly or with 'su -' - and use the chmod command I gave before, you should be OK.

Fixed, somehow
 

well, Interestingly enough... i removed the entry from my fstab, restarted, chmod the /mnt and /mnt/jump directories and then tried again. And it worked! No idea how the problem came about since i have done and verified everything as suggested, but i can now mount as a user and have full write permissions. So, thanks to all for the help in investigation, someday hope to repay the favor...

and, on a side note, i was in a root console directly as root, and as root in gui, and still had my permissions denied.. go figure.

Great to hear you got it working. Well done.