On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 20:15 -0500, Jayson Rowe wrote: > Good Evening Simon, > What file system is the Flash Drive formatted with? Also, are you only > unable to access the drive on your Fedora systems, or have the symptoms > carried over to your Windows boxes as well? > -jayson > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Simon Slater wrote: > > > G'day all, > A quick question about a USB stick that is used between FC6, F7 and > Win98 boxes. In the last week it has become read-only. I can't change > permissions as root. Any file or directory on it that is selected also > is tagged with a lock icon and is read-only. How can it be changed to > read-write? Formatted vfat Jayson, worked on the windo$e box. Mikkel's advice solved it though... there were bad sectors on it. Thanks -- Regards Simon
