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linux made my thumb drive read-only ??
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:04 pm
by Luke
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?
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:19 pm
by jayshields
Hehe, put it in Windows and see if it does the same?
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:31 pm
by Luke
yea it's all screwy on windows too... screw it, I'm just going to reformat it.

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:46 pm
by Jenk
Usb thumb drive?
Have you checked your UDEV rules?
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:02 am
by Kieran Huggins
did formatting work? is there a "lock" switch on the drive?
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:00 am
by Luke
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:48 pm
by Luke
Well now it's happened again, only this time not to my drive...
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.

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:39 pm
by Kieran Huggins
"rm -rf .trash" (or whatever the file is called) ?