USB Storage - deleting files

[Derek Broughton]

Chris Jeffries wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 22:23 +0100, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com
> wrote:
>> Re: USB Storage - deleting files
> 
> Thanks for the comments guys. All are worth remembering. However I would
> still like to know how the device got to be read-only, and how
> connecting it to a Windows PC cleared the fault.

Sorry, I haven't been reading this thread so I may be out of line, but it
looks straightforward to me.  If you remove a usb storage device without
properly unmounting it, it will usually need to be fsck'd.  Any device not
plugged in and recognized at boot time, won't _get_ fsck'd automatically. 
Any device mounted while needing an fsck, will be mounted read-only (at
best!).

Mounting it in Windows probably ran scandisk.  Or it just mounted a
corrupted drive and unmounted it as clean.  In which case, it's now
suspect :-(
-- 
derek