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I have a USB-3 drive that I use as a tertiary backup when I travel. Every now and then it goes into Read Only mode and I have to try to figure out all over again what to do in order to make it Read/Write again. The Disks utility... manually mounting and unmounting... etc. etc. Any tips or tricks to keep this from happening?

I have a USB-3 drive that I use as a tertiary backup when I travel. Every now and then it goes into Read Only mode and I have to try to figure out all over again what to do in order to make it Read/Write again. The Disks utility... manually mounting and unmounting... etc. etc. Any tips or tricks to keep this from happening?

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What file format are you using on the USB drive? Try changing it to Ext4 after backing up the data, then copy the data back over. If you want to use the USB drive on non-linux machines, use exFAT.

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I'll try Ext4 next. I'm backing up the data on it right now (backing up a back up... jeez) and then I'll reformat the drive. Thanks!

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FYI - Ext4 won't work with windows or mac.

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FYI - Ext4 won't work with windows or mac. It will work better for linux.

I'm only using Linux, so I'm cool with that! ;-)