I formatted the USB drive for vfat and -- supprise -- it is mountable rw. So I convlude that it is the iso9660 that's the couse of the problem. It is new media. Same thing with a micro SD. On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 21:03:04 -0400 "George N. White III" <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 at 19:27, Geoffrey Leach <geoff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Running Fedora 32, up-to-date > > > > Running mediawriter-4.1.7-1.fc32.x86_64 (as root) with a SanDisk > > Cruzer 32G USB drive, mediawriter continues without complaint until > > its done (by the progress bar) and then aborts saying it can't > > write the drive. "Destination drive not writable" > > > > The USB port is operable. > > > > > Suggestions? > > > > > Is the USB media new or previously used? > > mediawriter is going to reformat the USB media, so why not try > removing existing partitions with Gnome DIsks and maybe creating new > partitions and filesystem. > _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure