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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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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! ;-)

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It would be a potentially useful data point to see if the same thing happens in Windows. I have a vague memory of an SD card that was only read-only in Linux and fine in WIndows. However, it could be read/write in Linux if it was being accessed by root. I would play around with it and I feel like I'd get it working but nothing would stick.