(Solved) Read only Live-usb-storage folder on Antix 17 live USB with persistence

[Member PPC]

Hi, folks.
Recently I noticed every time I booted from my live Antix 17 64bits USB with persistence I could not save any file to my Live-usb-storage folder… Today I took the time to try to save a file and really paid attention to the problem. I get a message saying it’s “read only”.
Even when I try booting from my Antix 16.2 installed on my hard drive, if I try to change anything on that folder from my live usb boot drive, I get the same error message.
I noticed that a file I saved there “13.04 – How do I make Youtube videos stream faster on my ubuntu_ – Ask Ubuntu_files.html” shows up with an exclamation on it’s icon. If I try to delete it I get an “input/output error” message.
Is there a way to solve this situation without formating my usb pen drive and reinstaling the system there and configure persistence again (wich was a pain the first time around)?
Thanks in advance for any replies…

PPC

EDIT on 20/3/2018:
Thanks for your replies… In case anyone else ends up getting a similar error: it was in fact a corrupted usb pen drive. For now I reformated and reinstalled… I upgraded my live Antix from 17 to 17.1 (yeah, setting up persistence the second time around is not that hard… but probably someone should do an ilustrated step by step guide for newbies. If there is one I failed to find it.- and yes, if there is none, when I have the time, I’ll try to do one myself and post it)! But this drive won’t probably last much longer.

P.S.- I’ve never been able to burn a live iso to a usb pen drive from Antix, using the provided application. It takes about 15 minutes and finishes without errors, but always refuses to boot after that. I always end up booting to windows7 and using a free app that never fails burning the live iso to any usb pen drive in about 5 minutes… Any of you has an explanation for that? And by the way is there any way to verify and fix usb drives in antix (I ended up doing that in windows too)?

Thanks for the help that you folks never fail to provide! 🙂

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double check the permissions on the folder.

FWIW, I have not had this issue. Note that trying to access the live usb storage, which is owned by the user on the live usb, by default “demo”, from an installed system will have permission issues since its unlikely your installed user is “demo”.

you can change the folder to have 777 permissions. this is easy with spacefm or through the chmod command.

ext4 file systems enforce linux file permissions, even on removable media.

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rm 13.04 – How do I make Youtube videos stream faster on my ubuntu_ – Ask Ubuntu_files.html

https://www.linux.com/blog/linux-shell-tip-remove-files-names-contains-spaces-and-special-characters-such

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