Can I Write to a USB Drive

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Aug 20 13:27:56 UTC 2007


On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 01:12:24PM -0400, Stephen wrote:
> I am using Ubuntu
> 
> My USB hard drive is seen as read only. Is there a way write to it?
> 
> If so, how.

If you are not root, you probably just don't have permission to do
writes.  A fmask/dmask option if using fat32 should help when mounting,
or the regular permissions if it is ext2/3 or similar.

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