On 11/26/20 2:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
As I mentioned, I got the same expected results in Ubuntu as I did in
Fedora for the each of the
file system types tested.
Most of the time I do too; that's why I didn't test it on Fedora before
asking. My sister has an account at the Ubuntu forum, and
On 27/11/2020 02:34, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/26/20 9:31 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
You don't think someone could mistake not being able to write to the drive
because of an ownership/permission
as it being "read-only"?
The permissions are full for root, and r-x for everybody else.
Which isn't equ
On 27/11/2020 02:34, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/26/20 9:31 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
You don't think someone could mistake not being able to write to the drive
because of an ownership/permission
as it being "read-only"?
The permissions are full for root, and r-x for everybody else.
Oh, additionally
On 11/26/20 7:44 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
It seems what's described here is that, for some odd reason, the flash
drives get mounted occasionally as read-only, so this is not an
ownership issue.
On Ubuntu, at least, it gets mounted with an ownership of root:root.
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On 11/26/20 9:31 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
You don't think someone could mistake not being able to write to the
drive because of an ownership/permission
as it being "read-only"?
The permissions are full for root, and r-x for everybody else.
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Ed Greshko writes:
On 27/11/2020 00:31, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 26/11/2020 22:44, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Ed Greshko writes:
On 26/11/2020 16:35, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/26/20 12:34 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
FWIW, I have a Ubuntu VM and the same flash drive that I used on Fedora
works the same way
On 27/11/2020 00:31, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 26/11/2020 22:44, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Ed Greshko writes:
On 26/11/2020 16:35, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/26/20 12:34 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
FWIW, I have a Ubuntu VM and the same flash drive that I used on Fedora works
the same way on
it. The system mo
On 26/11/2020 22:44, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Ed Greshko writes:
On 26/11/2020 16:35, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/26/20 12:34 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
FWIW, I have a Ubuntu VM and the same flash drive that I used on Fedora works
the same way on
it. The system mounts it for me, as me. It is ubuntu 20.
Ed Greshko writes:
On 26/11/2020 16:35, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/26/20 12:34 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
FWIW, I have a Ubuntu VM and the same flash drive that I used on Fedora
works the same way on
it. The system mounts it for me, as me. It is ubuntu 20.04 if that makes
any difference.
Most of
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From: Tim via users
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2020 10:40 AM
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
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Subject: Re: Read-only flash drives
On Thu, 2020-11-26 at 07:36 +, J.Witvliet--- via users wrote:
> Once in a while we come across thumb-drives, that af
On Thu, 2020-11-26 at 07:36 +, J.Witvliet--- via users wrote:
> Once in a while we come across thumb-drives, that after using a
> couple of times, can’t even be reformatted.
Some people leave them plugged in all the time, and although they think
only that they're using them occasionally, they'
On 26/11/2020 16:35, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/26/20 12:34 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
FWIW, I have a Ubuntu VM and the same flash drive that I used on Fedora works
the same way on
it. The system mounts it for me, as me. It is ubuntu 20.04 if that makes any
difference.
Most of the time, flash drives
On 11/26/20 12:34 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
FWIW, I have a Ubuntu VM and the same flash drive that I used on Fedora
works the same way on
it. The system mounts it for me, as me. It is ubuntu 20.04 if that
makes any difference.
Most of the time, flash drives mount properly for my sister too. Onc
rs@lists.fedoraproject.org>>
Subject: Read-only flash drives
Every now and then I buy a flash drive and find that when I mount it
it's owned by root and read only except by root. I can, of course,
change that by using chown and chmod, but that only lasts until I
unmount the drive. Generally
On 26/11/2020 14:00, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/25/20 6:06 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
Or just copy/paste the output of ‘mount’.
*Sigh!* The drive we're having trouble with works Just Fine on my Fedora box,
but not on my sister's Ubuntu box. Not a Fedora issue.
FWIW, I have a Ubuntu VM and th
On 11/25/20 6:06 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
Or just copy/paste the output of ‘mount’.
*Sigh!* The drive we're having trouble with works Just Fine on my
Fedora box, but not on my sister's Ubuntu box. Not a Fedora issue.
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On 26/11/2020 12:02, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 11/25/20 7:32 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/25/20 4:05 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
What filesystem is on it and how are you mounting it?
I'd presume VFAT, and I'm just inserting the drive and letting the OS do its
thing, and my sister's doing the same way o
On 11/25/20 7:32 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/25/20 4:05 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
What filesystem is on it and how are you mounting it?
I'd presume VFAT, and I'm just inserting the drive and letting the OS do
its thing, and my sister's doing the same way on Ubuntu.
I've never had a problem with
On 11/25/20 4:05 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
What filesystem is on it and how are you mounting it?
I'd presume VFAT, and I'm just inserting the drive and letting the OS do
its thing, and my sister's doing the same way on Ubuntu.
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On Nov 25, 2020, at 19:04, ToddAndMargo via users
wrote:
>
> --> gparted: select the flash drive from the pull down in
>the upper right
>
> --> View
>
> --> device information
>
> Post a screen shot over on [redacted]
Or just copy/paste the output of ‘mount’.
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On 2020-11-25 15:05, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 11/25/20 3:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
Every now and then I buy a flash drive and find that when I mount it
it's owned by root and read only except by root. I can, of course,
change that by using chown and chmod, but that only lasts until I
unmount the dr
On 11/25/20 3:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
Every now and then I buy a flash drive and find that when I mount it
it's owned by root and read only except by root. I can, of course,
change that by using chown and chmod, but that only lasts until I
unmount the drive. Generally, I need to reformat the d
Every now and then I buy a flash drive and find that when I mount it
it's owned by root and read only except by root. I can, of course,
change that by using chown and chmod, but that only lasts until I
unmount the drive. Generally, I need to reformat the drive to get it
working properly. And
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