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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:              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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