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Title: Gnome - USB Sticks Read only
Post by: OppaErich on 2017/12/09, 17:37:22: Hi,

why does Nautilus mount USB drives read-only and how can I fix this ? Dunno what happened, this worked without a problem before.

Boy, am I pissed. Wasted a full day trying to split a 2h mp4 into 3 parts. Didn't work and now I can't port it to Windows and give MovieMaker a try... >:(

Have a nice weekend,
Stephan
Title: Re: Gnome - USB Sticks Read only
Post by: axt on 2017/12/09, 18:07:32: That's intent. You have to unmount the stick before you could unplug.
Title: Re: Gnome - USB Sticks Read only
Post by: der_bud on 2017/12/09, 18:41:20: "...port to windows..." - is that stick fat/ntfs? In which groups is your user? What are the owner/group permissions of the directory /media/yourusername/ ? Is ntfs-3g installed with the tool 'ntfs-config' ?
Title: Re: Gnome - USB Sticks Read only
Post by: OppaErich on 2017/12/10, 13:46:19: Code: [Select]
oppa@oppa-hex-ssd:~$ ls -l /media/oppa/ total 4880758 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4997882140 Dez 9 17:29 206953166-81529952-05e59401-8250-461b-8400-0908b7f03bd8.mp4 dr-x------ 1 oppa oppa 2048 Nov 28 2012 ISO drwxr-xr-x 15 oppa oppa 4096 Jan 1 1970 Transcend oppa@oppa-hex-ssd:~$ apt policy ntfs-3g ntfs-3g: Installed: 1:2017.3.23-2 Candidate: 1:2017.3.23-2 Version table: *** 1:2017.3.23-2 500 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status oppa@oppa-hex-ssd:~$ mount ... /dev/sdk1 on /media/oppa/Transcend type vfat (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)uid/gid 1000 is me, oppa

Why is the filesystem of importance ? It worked fine no matter what fs.
Title: Re: Gnome - USB Sticks Read only
Post by: unklarer on 2017/12/10, 14:00:31: there was a recent warning about udisks2
so I put it on hold
I don't know if it's connected to that.

besides tha
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Title: Re: Gnome - USB Sticks Read only
Post by: OppaErich on 2017/12/10, 16:26:14: I've tried this with my Fedora installation -> same problem. And this wasn't updated for a month, at least.

I found something about running dosfsck and tried that. dosfsck found and corrected some stuff but it still gets read-only access. Well, I guess I have to re-download that 5G file... :(
Title: Re: Gnome - USB Sticks Read only
Post by: der_bud on 2017/12/10, 21:25:16: Before downloading a second time on a slow connection, have you tried to work as root in terminal? Such as remounting the stick with -o rw, or creating a directory as root and copy the file? Windows should not bother who owned the file on linux.

(OT, splitting large videos with ffmpeg worked for me always like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35133730)
Title: Re: Gnome - USB Sticks Read only
Post by: OppaErich on 2017/12/11, 14:43:18: Hi,

you asked for the group memberships too. Sorry.
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oppa@oppa-hex-ssd:~$ groups oppa lp dialout cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev users fuse netdev systemd-journal scannerNope, didn't try any root console voodoo. :) And ffmpeg showed up during my searching too, something like starttime and duration. I was too lazy to do the math and I think writing to vfat usb drives HAS TO work.

Thanks,
Stephan

PS: MovieMaker was really easy: Open file, set marker (left mouse click), click on split button - done.
Title: Re: Gnome - USB Sticks Read only
Post by: OppaErich on 2017/12/11, 16:53:28: LOL :o

Do the same thing over and over again and expect a different outcome eventually.

Just tried again and now it works. File is being copied.

Have fun,
Stephan

PS: Well, I did a d-u yesterday, maybe the fix was in there.