[Bradford] Wonky new USB stick

[Duncan Hughes]

This is your pendrive:
/dev/sdb1 on /run/media/darren-drapkin/0639-7FF9 type vfat

It has a FAT(MSDOS) filesystem which doesn’t support permissions.  

What happens if you run
ls /run/media/darren-drapkin/0639-7FF9
or
touch /run/media/darren-drapkin/0639-7FF9/test.txt
?





> On 2 Aug 2022, at 22:19, John Robert Hudson via Bradford <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi Darren
> 
> This is almost certainly a permissions issue. Assuming you have formated it 
> with Linux partitions, they will have inherited the permissions of the user 
> who formated it.
> 
> If you then copy data to and from it, the permissions work in the same way as 
> if you copied data between two different users.
> 
> The simple answer is to access it as root and then there should be no 
> problems. The better answer is to sort out the permissions.
> 
> John
> 
> On Tuesday, 2 August 2022 20:19:50 BST Darren Drapkin via Bradford wrote:
>> I have recently purchased a 128GB pendrive. I happily loaded most of my Open
>> University data onto it, hoping to have a backup and data ferry between my
>> computers.
>> 
>> I now  have a largely empty pendrive that is complaining that it is read
>> only. I want to put more stuff on it, any suggestions ?
>> 
>> --
>> Yours in mild desperation
>> Darren Drapkin
>> 
>> 
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