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How can I mark an external drive as not read-only?

I have an external 320GB Samsung drive, which got marked as read only after I put a system on suspend a while back and then pulled the drive out. I had forgotten to unmount the drive before doing so, ...
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What partition to use to keep data files in Ubuntu?

I have been using Ubuntu for a few years and usually my partition set up was the following: Ext3 or Ext4 partition for the system itself (20 GB); A 10 GB swap partition; a big FAT32 partition to ...
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How do I change file permissions on a FAT32 drive?

I have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I've noticed recently every file in my Hard Drive get executable privilege even every text files so when open it a pop-up window asks me what to do(run in ...
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How can I change permissions on external drives?

I wanted to change permissions on my external drives that are automounted however I have tried by sudo nautilus and then going to gui and permissions and changing it however it does not let me. I ran ...