Hey Jon. I think it's all and any usbs that are write protected. I have tried several different usb sticks. Like it's a system option.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 11:51 AM Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > On 07/28/2020 04:42 PM, andrew beck wrote: > > Just a quick question fellows. I need to send the config files to Andy. > > Now my USB is Copy protected in Linux. Don't know how it happened but > how > > to I disable it so I can copy to USB? > > > > > Write protect? Some USB memory sticks have a tiny write > protect switch on the side. > IF the USB stick has a different group/user ID on a Linux > file system, then you could use the sudo command to change > the owner. > > if your user name on the Linux system was "andy", and the > usual setup has the group name same as user, > then you would do : > > sudo chown andy:andy /media/xxxxx > > where xxxxx is the mount point of the USB stick. > You can verify your user name and group with : > > ls -al ~ > > The 3rd column is your group name, 4th column is the user name. > > And, of course, you can see what is on a mounted USB stick > with : > > ls -al /media/xxxxx > > Jon > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
