Re: Read Only FS on USB stick

Andrew Greig <pushin.linux@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I recently copied some files onto a USB stick, but now, I cannot delete them from the stick as the fs is readonly. I have tried to chmod, but no luck. I have tried to chmod as roo, still no good. Then I remembered that the fstab sometimes mounts removable devices readonly, but the only drives referenced in fstab are the swap, / and /home partitions. Where would I be able to change the permissions for this drive, please? OpenSuse 13.1

It could be due to file system corruption. Have a look at your kernel logs to see whether there's an error message when you mount the file system. Also, when you run the mount command, do you get any error messages?