"Read Only" file system

[Rick Stevens]

On 08/23/2013 02:23 PM, Jim issued this missive:
> Fedora 18 / kde
>
> My Flash Drive has somehow been change to "Read Only" and I cannot
> delete files from it.
>
> The drive is at /run/media/mickey/0A73-237A and the owner is user
> mickey:mickey  in /mickey/0A73-237A the files on this drive are at;
> -rw-r--r--.  1 mickey mickey       967 Aug 23 16:15 yumex
> -rw-r--r--.  1 mickey mickey      5107 Aug  5 10:55 yum-update
>
> Everytime I try to "rm yumex" I get a ReadOnly file system
>
> How do I change this ??

Check the mountpoint and verify it's got the right ownerships and
permissions:

	ls -ld /run/media/mickey/0A73-237A

If it's correct, you could try remounting it RW:

	mount -o remount,rw /run/media/mickey/0A73-237A

If that works, then just why it became RO is a question. Is it an old
FLASH drive that may be on its last legs? Remember that FLASH drives
have a limited number of write cycles.
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