Re: How to mount vfat filesystem read/write?
Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> > I have an SD card which is vfat formatted. There's a file on it that
> > I want to remove but when automounted it is read only. How can I get
> > it to mount with write permission?
> >
> > This is on debian 12.
>
> First, check to see if the SD card has a readonly switch. (Many
> SD cards do; microSD do not.)
>
> Second, try:
>
> (assuming that the card is mounted at /mnt/media/foobar)
>
> sudo mount -o remount,rw /mnt/media/foobar
>
Thank you, worked perfectly, I've now removed the file. It's an SD
card from a camera and the one damaged file was stopping a program
to copy files from there to my laptop. The camera had thrown a wobbly
while taking a picture and left the duff file.
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Chris Green
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