I have Ubuntu 12.04.
My problem is, I can't get write access to any USB device, like thumbdrive, SD card or digital camera using GNOME 3.4.1.
Both FAT32 and NTFS filesystems won't work.
From terminal I can create files without any problems…
But when I do this same from GNOME file explorer: "The destination is read-only":
syslog:
Jul 1 21:52:48 alan-OEM kernel: [19186.444270] usb 1-5.1: reset high-speed USB device number 12 using ehci_hcd Jul 1 21:52:48 alan-OEM kernel: [19186.539012] scsi10 : usb-storage 1-5.1:1.0 Jul 1 21:52:49 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.543752] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9407 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 Jul 1 21:52:49 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.546942] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0 Jul 1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.769766] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] 15523840 512-byte logical blocks: (7.94 GB/7.40 GiB) Jul 1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.770881] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off Jul 1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.770885] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 Jul 1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.771900] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present Jul 1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.771905] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through Jul 1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.776387] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present Jul 1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.776392] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through Jul 1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.779555] sdd: sdd1 Jul 1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.784891] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present Jul 1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.784896] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through Jul 1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.784900] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
/etc/mtab:
/dev/sdd1 /media/CC2A-FA36 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks 0 0 root@alan-OEM:/etc#
And /media:
root@alan-OEM:/media# ls -l total 12 drwx------ 26 alan alan 8192 sty 1 1970 CC2A-FA36
("alan" is my account.)
It looks like like I have read-write-execute.
So from terminal:
alan@alan-OEM:/media/CC2A-FA36$ mkdir zzz alan@alan-OEM:/media/CC2A-FA36$ mkdir zzzz drwx------ 2 alan alan 4096 lip 1 22:49 zzz drwx------ 2 alan alan 4096 lip 1 22:49 zzzz
Work great… but from GNOME I can't….
It's making me crazy…
Best Answer
I just ran into this issue with 14.04! All I wanted to do was copy a single file onto my thumbdrive. Luckily this question mentioned that it works in the terminal so I that's what I ended up doing.
Apparently it's still an open bug ?: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1021375