On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 10:04, Marco Fioretti wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday I purchased an USB pen drive, connected it to a shrike PC > and, after manual mounting, copied into it some files. > > I then went to another shrike PC, mounted it manually again, copied all its > files on local disk. So far so good. > > I then tried to cancel them on the pendrive, to copy other ones, and could not > do it because of "read-only filesystem"! > > Same thing happens right now from another PC running RH7.2. > Mounting with -o rw option doesn't change anything. The relevant dmesg output > on this RH7.2 PC is pasted at the end of this message. > > Ideas? Don't know exactly what kind of USB pen you have, but on mine is a very small switch which acts like a "write protect" tab... I've had no problems using it on RH8+9. Klaasjan
