"Read Only" file system

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Fri Aug 23 21:47:31 UTC 2013


On 08/23/2013 04:23 PM, Jim wrote:
> 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 ??

Does it have one of those little switches on it that makes it read-only?
 (Developer's motto:  The problem is in the hardware.)

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-- Steve


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