Re: The case of the read-only USB sticks.

2014-07-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:18:11 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 16:38:34 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Sb, 22 feb 14, 14:33:24, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> I have a problem with my USB sticks mysteriously becoming read-only. >> >> You didn't provide any information about make, m

Re: The case of the read-only USB sticks.

2014-02-24 Thread Frank Miles
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:40:01 +0100, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have a problem with my USB sticks mysteriously becoming read-only. > > I decided to investigate. I bought three identical 8G USB sticks, > identical except for colour). None of them appear have any switches on > them. > > The first I

Re: The case of the read-only USB sticks.

2014-02-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 16:38:34 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 22 feb 14, 14:33:24, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I have a problem with my USB sticks mysteriously becoming read-only. > > You didn't provide any information about make, model, size, > partitioning, file systems, etc. Also the relevant

Re: The case of the read-only USB sticks.

2014-02-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 feb 14, 14:33:24, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have a problem with my USB sticks mysteriously becoming read-only. You didn't provide any information about make, model, size, partitioning, file systems, etc. Also the relevant lines from syslog when you plug in the stick are very useful for d

The case of the read-only USB sticks.

2014-02-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have a problem with my USB sticks mysteriously becoming read-only. I decided to investigate. I bought three identical 8G USB sticks, identical except for colour). None of them appear have any switches on them. The first I used my Linux laptop to write a file into the top-level directory of