"Read Only" file system

[Mihai T. Lazarescu]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 05:23:30PM -0400, 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 ??

This may be because of a file system with errors.  If this is
the case, unmount, check for and fix errors, then it should
mount RW.

Mihai