[WYLUG-HELP] USB memory stick permissions

[Craig Hopkins]

Mike Goodman scribed:
> Hi, Folks,
>
> Just bought two plain 1GB memory sticks, "no drivers needed", from
> Viking Direct. My Ubuntu workstaion is telling me they are read only. It
> is corrrectly reading them, i.e right click on the usbdisk icon and lick
> properties, it shows the size as 991.7MB, contents nothing. Click on
> permissions and it shows owner as read, write and execute. But try and
> add group or others and not allowed, read only disk.
>
> Any answers?
>   
Are you trying to add permissions to specific contents on the usb disk 
itself, or the folder that it is mounted into?

In the case of the former, if the usb disk is fat32 then it won't allow 
permissions to be set as it doesn't support them.
In the case of the latter, the permissions for the drive itself should 
be set when it is mounted.