Thursday, April 04, 2019

USB drive reported as read only - solution

Found my USB drive reported as read-only on Linux Mint 18.1.

Corruption could cause this, so tried
sudo dosfsck -a /dev/sdc1

That did not help. Though the CLI is able to write to it, Nemo still complains it is read-only.

Apaprently the fix is at https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=176546

So everything needed to fix the issue is to execute:
sudo chmod 777 /media/USERNAME

And/or maybe a reboot?

When I faced this issue today, I rebooted the system, and then the USB drive was mounted read/write.

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