On Wednesday 29 July 2020 02:33:11 andrew beck wrote: > 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.
Have you tried as root? Newer distros have restricted user access to USB stuff. > 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 Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
