On 26/11/2020 22:44, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Ed Greshko writes:
> On 26/11/2020 16:35, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 11/26/20 12:34 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> FWIW, I have a Ubuntu VM and the same flash drive that I used on Fedora works
the same way on
>>> it. The system mounts it for me, as me. It is ubuntu 20.04 if that makes
any difference.
>>
>> Most of the time, flash drives mount properly for my sister too. Once in a while
this comes up for her and/or for me, and I was hoping to get a handle on how to deal with
the issue once and for all.
>
> The next time it happens to you check which file system type is on the drive.
>
> FAT and VFAT don't have ownership written to them as Samuel explained. And, as I
said, I've never
> encountered issues with them.
It seems what's described here is that, for some odd reason, the flash drives get
mounted occasionally as read-only, so this is not an ownership issue.
You don't think someone could mistake not being able to write to the drive because of
an ownership/permission
as it being "read-only"?
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