I have no problem writing to SD cards with Mint17. On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > On 01/16/2016 08:03 PM, dad wrote: >>> >>>> Mint 17.3. 8 gig micro card and named the owner dad. [...] >>>> I installed a program called sound converter to convert the offensive >>>> files. The micro card will NOT let me add or delete files to it. >>>> >>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: >> >>> Did you accidentally flip the little switch on the side of the SD >>> card that puts it in write protect mode? >>> >> > That was my first thought, but that's apparently not the problem. > > On 2016-01-17 17:32, Snyder, Alexander wrote: > >> By default, storage devices that are plugged into the system mount >> automatically in the /media/ directory. >> > > Some distros do this. Mint is probably one of them.[0] Most > removable-media SD cards have a FAT32 filesystem on them, and FAT doesn't > actually have Unix-style permissions. These are faked at mount time > according to the automounter's configuration, and generally the user who's > logged in should be able to read and write the files on the mounted medium. > > So: Unplug the device, then plug it in again and immediately do "dmesg | > tail -n 40". This'll tell you what the kernel thinks is going on with the > SD card. It might think the filesystem is damaged and so it's mounting it > read-only, or something. > > [0] I don't think automounters are a good idea for various reasons. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: