USB drive read-only

[Keilaron]

Hello

I have a USB Universal Smart Drive (32MB) and when Knoppix detects it, the mounted partition becomes read-only.
Why is this, any ideas?
Any information I should post (lbusb?)?

Thanks

[m_yates]

Add the following line to /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat defaults,users,noauto,umask=000 0 0

Then reboot (you don't actually have to reboot, but I forget the command, you might try "mount -a" instead of rebooting).

Now:

mkdir /mnt/sda1

Plug in your USB drive and type:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

and it should be writable. Hope what I said is correct. :wink:

[Keilaron]

Well, it worked! Thanks a lot, I appreciate it!

(I didn't have to reboot / type mount, though, just so you know.)

[m_yates]

Great, glad that it worked. Remember to type:

umount /dev/sda1

before removing it.