Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

[Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@fsing.rootsland.net>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 05:45:33AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd  to copy an iso image.
>
> # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync
> dd: opening `/dev/sdi': Read-only file system

I guess that /dev/sdi is your USB pen drive? Does the pen drive have 
a read-only switch? I know some USB stick which have a hardware switch 
for read-only and read-write.

The output of dmesg may give more information.

Shade and sweet water!

	Stephan

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