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   Amund to Bobbie Sellers   
   Re: Removable media is read-only   
   28 May 14 21:04:06   
   
   From: sjaavaag_nospamplease@bigfoot.com   
      
   Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
      
   > On 05/26/2014 06:24 PM, Amund wrote:   
   >> How is it possible to mount a removable media in RW-mode, under Mageia 4,   
   >> KDE4?   
   >>   
   >> I have connected a phone via usb, and mounted it via kde. When i try to   
   >> move files from it, i get the message that the files cannot be deleted   
   >> from the source, since it is a read-only file system.   
   >>   
   >> I can't see any permissions, that are set to read-only.   
   >>   
   >> One problem, is that i don't see this device in diskrake either.   
   >>   
   >> It is a real bad situation: When you connect a usb-device, i can't move   
   >> pictures from it, and other files, as you normally do from a usb-disk.   
   >>   
   >> How is it possible to get write-access to such device?   
   >>   
   >   
   > So open a shell and chown your removable device...   
   >   
   > Unfortunately I don't own a phone so I am not sure that it will work.   
   > I have had to a lot of chowning lately with a new computer and much   
   > stuff that belonged on the failed computer.   
   >   
   > bliss   
      
   Thanks for your help.   
      
   It did not help to use chown and i even tried chmod to 777.   
      
   I googled for help, and i read that someone else solved the problem with   
   fsck: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1145343   
   I tried to run fsck, but it did not change anything:   
      
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