[Wylug-help] USB Memory Stick Mounts Read Only

[Digby Sewell]

>
>   The stick is not necessarily broken: write access to it is
> not exclusively controlled from the stick end.
>
>   It is possible you have corruption on the disk. If the
> corruption is not present or not evident at mount time, the
> warning about its detection may be passing unnoticed. For
> example, `man mount` discloses:
>        If the msdos file system detects an incon-
>        sistency, it reports an error and sets the file system read-only.
> The
>        file system can be made writeable again by remounting it.
>
>   You may find a [dos]fsck/reformat helps if you still have
> the device.
>
> Cheers,
>   Wills.

Following your suggestions I had another go; umount and  mkfs seems to have 
fixed it in the end.

Thanks for the help,
   Digby.