To whom it may concern,

I am trying to delete and drag files to and from my mushkin mp3 player with Fedora Core 3. When I try to delete the files from the mp3 player a window pops up and says Error while deleting "/media/usbdisk/track08.mp3" cannot be deleted because it is on a read-only disk. When I try to put mp3 files into the mp3 player a window pops up saying Error whil copying to "/media/usbdisk/". The destination is read only. What is the command to make the mp3 player wok on Fedora Core 3? Can you give it to me step by step please?

You must mout your usbstick rw (read-write). Check man mount for more info.

as root edit the /etc/fstab line that has usbdisk so it looks something like this:

/dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat user,noauto,noatime,rw,iocharset=utf8,gid=users,umask=0000 0 0

the mp3 player is listed under the directory /media/usbdisk1 what shoud I do to change the permissions or mode. I try to use chmod for the rw but it does not work?

AS ROOT edit the fstab to include rw and umask=0000 as in the example above
this will enable all users to read and write to the disk/mp3 player
again, this must be done as root because no other user has permission to write to the fstab

cool I had the same problem, well wasnt much of a problem rather then I didnt know how to mount the stick hehe

Well I got mine working, thx

What shoud I use to edit fstab and what is the command to get into fstab? When I try to get in it says permission denied?

you have to be root to edit the fstab
open a terminal and type the following:

su
(you will be asked for the root password)
gedit /etc/fstab

make the changes you need to make then save it and exit
please let us know how it turns out...thanks