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Everytime I have to put something in a pendrive from a different computer where it was formatted, I have to format it again with GParted because it is only in read-mode. I tryed even opening nautilus with privileged and it didn't work. Please, I need to find an easy way for my aunt. She doesn't want to format every time she needs to copy files from one computer to another.

Thanks in advance,

gal007
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    Usually FAT format is very compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux. I'm using an external drive as backup and every Operating systems are accepting it without a problem. – Ege Sucu May 09 '17 at 21:22
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    FAT32 should be fine – You'reAGitForNotUsingGit May 09 '17 at 21:28
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    Ubuntu will accept most formats, this is a permissions issue (see here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/563764/usb-devices-showing-a-read-only) What is the output of ls /media/$USER/ -al with the drive plugged in? – brndn2k May 09 '17 at 21:51
  • @brndn2k I think you are right, it is not a problem with the format, I curently have it in fat. This is the output: total 10 drwxr-x---+ 3 gal gal 4096 may 10 11:52 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 mar 22 11:46 .. dr-xr-xr-x 1 gal gal 2048 feb 15 18:43 Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS amd64 – gal007 May 10 '17 at 14:54
  • I tryed the solution with most votes of user284234 in the link you provide me and it does not work :( – gal007 May 10 '17 at 14:56
  • That looks like it's owned by root. Have you tried taking ownership? `sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername /media/$USER/YOURDRIVE – brndn2k May 10 '17 at 15:00
  • Or you can just change the permissions sudo chmod 777 /media/$USER -R – brndn2k May 10 '17 at 15:25
  • @brndn2k I tryedd with the chmod option but it is not working. I can write in the pendrive from any Window-based machine, but when using Ubuntu, just from the computer I formatted it – gal007 May 10 '17 at 16:26
  • The chown option does not work :( – gal007 May 10 '17 at 16:31

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