How to mount read-only filesystem as read-write?
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this is my problem. I have a USB drive which somehow was set as read-only. I want to set it as read write then format it.
sudo chown -R eric /dev/sdb
Seems to go through, but when I view the drive in Nautilius it says
Error mounting: mount: block device /dev/sdb1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful inf.o is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so.
Thanks in advance!
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