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The dreaded read-only problem
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(02-22-2021, 02:57 AM)Tyrannocaster link Wrote: I've been using an external HD to transfer files between my linux system and my windows PC. Tonight it wouldn't let me write to the disk. No matter what I did I got errors like chown: changing ownership of '/media/MYNAME/STORAGE': Read-only file system
(STORAGE is the name of the disk.)
When I look in the GUI properties tab it says I have read and write access but no groups have anything but read access. However, I plainly do not have write access. I've looked online for the last hour and I know this is a common issue in linux, but I've never run into it before and so far all the terminal commands I have seen suggested don't do anything useful; the disk stays read only. I have to get this working again!

I can write to it fine in Windows. The disk is formatted as FAT 32.
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The dreaded read-only problem - by Tyrannocaster - 02-22-2021, 02:57 AM
Re: The dreaded read-only problem - by Tyrannocaster - 02-22-2021, 03:08 AM
Re: The dreaded read-only problem - by Valtam - 02-22-2021, 04:33 AM

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