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I have a DELL Vostro 1015 laptop and just installed Ubuntu 16.04 upon. But I cant copy anything into USB flash memories! The "paste" option and "new folder" option don't work on USB flash memory!

I tried some solutions and commands I found on the Internet but they didn't work and one of them caused start up problems and forced me to re-installing Ubuntu!

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  • https://askubuntu.com/questions/903276/i-formatted-a-usb-drive-and-now-it-says-the-destination-is-read-only this might help – Sumeet Deshmukh Apr 29 '17 at 06:11
  • Thanks but my problem isn't for just one specific USB memory. any USB memory I tried have this problem! – user3486308 Apr 29 '17 at 06:25
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    What commands have you tried? what commands gave problems? the more information you add the more users will get attracted to the issue, so please add as much as you can. and have you tried chown ? – Sumeet Deshmukh Apr 29 '17 at 06:27
  • Yes I tried this but didn't work: 'sudo chown [username] /media/[username]

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    sudo chgrp [username] /media/[username] '

     – user3486308 Apr 29 '17 at 07:41
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    Will the tips in the following link help you mount a partition in a USB stick with read and write permissions? https://askubuntu.com/questions/886701/how-do-i-get-permission-to-edit-in-my-usb/886735#886735 - Otherwise, please tell us what partitions there are (in the USB stick) by editing the original question with the output of the following commands, sudo lsblk -f and sudo parted -ls – sudodus Apr 29 '17 at 07:42

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I solved the problem with this guide I found it here: How do I get permission to edit in my usb

Mount a FAT32 partition in a USB stick with write permissions for everybody

Assumption: the pendrive is seen as /dev/sdx, replace the partition device sdxn with the actual letters for the partition, for example sdb1: /dev/sdxn ---> /dev/sdb1.

Explanation: x is the drive letter, and n is the partition number. Text after # is a comment (not used as a command).

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/sd1  # only if you want a new mountpoint
sudo umount /dev/sdxn   # general: only if already mounted (with bad permissions).
sudo umount /dev/sdb1   # example

sudo mount -o rw,users,umask=000 /dev/sdxn /mnt/sd1  # general: mount
sudo mount -o rw,users,umask=000 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sd1  # example
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