On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:27:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:31 +0800 > kaye n <guikaye@gmail.com> wrote: > > > When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit > > certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flash drive. But after I > > try to copy several dbf files from the desktop computer hard drive to > > the flash drive via the terminal, it says it's read only. When I open > > the calc files again, they are now read only and cannot be edited. > > What file system is on the flash drive? What does gparted or parted > report? > > Are the files marked read only (ro), or is the entire flash drive > mounted ro? > > Are you editing the calc files from Linux or Windows? > > How, exactly, are you mounting the flash drive under Linux. What > command? > > How long has this been going on? What do the logs say? /var/log/syslog, or .../messages? Or however systemd folks call that stuff these days). If there's an event forcing the OS to put the file system in read-only mode (e.g. write error), you will see traces of it in the system logs. Cheers - t
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