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Old 12-19-2008, 04:59 AM   #1
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Read-only USB in Windows, writable in Linux?


I frequently create files on my Windows computer, save it to USB, then have them printed at a print store or transfered to secretaries or I give some presentations on another computer, etc. Daily, I find new viruses on my USB. Of course, they all come from the Windows machines that everyone else uses.

As I always only need to WRITE to the disk from Linux and READ from the disk on Windows, is there some way to block Windows machines from adding files to the disk?

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Old 12-19-2008, 05:43 AM   #2
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Questions.

Is your user in the 'plugdev' group? Also if this device is in fstab, might want to check and see if its set 'user' and 'rw'.
 
Old 12-19-2008, 05:44 AM   #3
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Hya,

Some of my USB sticks have write protect switch.

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Old 12-19-2008, 05:45 AM   #4
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lol.

Think that would possibly have been a last guess . None of mine have that switch lol.
 
  


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