Read only USB Hell: USB sticks now mounting as read only for some reason. Nemo. Need help please

business_kid · 05-11-2022, 08:19 AM

I know it's a cheat, but I go in on drives where only root has permission and issue

Code:

chown -R myuser:users *

which has the effect of making everything but the root partition of the drive writable. I usually make some commonsense directories beforehand. Often it's the file permissions of the files that root has written are the real problem.

wladicus · 05-11-2022, 09:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

I know it's a cheat, but I go in on drives where only root has permission and issue

Code:

chown -R myuser:users *

which has the effect of making everything but the root partition of the drive writable. I usually make some commonsense directories beforehand. Often it's the file permissions of the files that root has written are the real problem.

Thank you. In my case I have tried that many times before and it does not work. Also all the drives/USBs shown as owned by root have no data in them. The system is screwed up. I can read/write to some folders and not to others, and sometimes I get a message that this is a read only USB but the listing shows that I am the owner and I have read, write and execute privileges.
Go figure ...