linux made my thumb drive read-only ??

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linux made my thumb drive read-only ??

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I'm not quite sure what I did, but I can't seem to undo it. Linux says my thumb drive is read-only. I tried chmod without any success... what do I do?
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Hehe, put it in Windows and see if it does the same?
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yea it's all screwy on windows too... screw it, I'm just going to reformat it. :P
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Usb thumb drive?

Have you checked your UDEV rules?
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did formatting work? is there a "lock" switch on the drive?
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formatting worked. It had to do with linux putting a trash can on the drive and windows corrupting it ( I believe) but I didn't have time to mess with it, so I got off what I needed and reformatted. Worked fine.
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Well now it's happened again, only this time not to my drive... Image

Now I can't even reformat it. It tells me it "Windows cannot format this drive - please make sure it isn't open bla bla bla". I've got the trash can file on the drive now and I CANT get it off. I'm a real n00b with permissions and filesystems in general... it's a weakness of mine I really need to work on. :(
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"rm -rf .trash" (or whatever the file is called) ?
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