Hello folks,
Recently my USB Flash drive has been auto mounting as read only by my account and all permissions are set as root. I have tried reformatting and running chown but nothing works. This was never an issue before. Any ideas how to get opensuse to see it as read/write again?
Did you change the file system on the flash drive?
It was formatted on a Windows machine as FAT32. It is completely read/write on the windows machines
Then, it could be that the plugin mechanism is not mounting it with user permission. I don’t have enough expertise there, someone else may help.
I have this same issue with USB sticks and my Card Reader.
Anyone knows a solution for that?
Running openSuSE 11.1 and GNOME 2.26.
That’s strange – I have Gnome under openSUSE 11.1 and pen drives mount read/write.
But I have Gnome 2.24 – how come u have 2.26?
I’m not knowledgeable enough to fix that, but you can work around the bug by first unmounting the device in Nautilus (by finding it under Places and R-click → unmount). Then remount from the command line with this:
mount -t vfat -o umask=0000,utf8 /dev/sdXY /path_to/mount_point
I know that’s not a solution, just a workaround.