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usbdisk will not give permision to write

Asked by karlrhs

usbdisk will not give permision to write. The error I get is Error while copying to "/media/usbdisk"

When I go to /media/usbdisk to check the permissions I get this message that the media is read only.

Everything has worked fine in the past. I have passed files back and forth between windows and linux up until today.

Dapper Drake

Thank you in advance.

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Jan Hülsbergen (jan-afoo) said : 		#1

If your usbdisk is mounted via an entry in your /etc/fstab AND is using the vfat (fat32) filesystem, adding uid=1000,gid=1000 (assuming you are the only user of the system and thus have user and group ID 1000, find out by typing 'id' in a terminal if necessary) to the mount options might help. To do this, type 'gksudo gedit /etc/fstab' in a terminal window and modify the line containing your usb disk to look something like that:

/dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

You have to change /dev/sda1 to your actual device and if there are other options than just 'defaults', leave them intact.

I hope this helps.

regards

Jan

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