Mount a read only sdcard as writable

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I have an Amazon Fire tablet with a blown USB port that’s only good for charging now. I’m trying to add some files to the sdcard but when I insert it, it mounts as read-only.

I tried the advice here:

but I got nowhere.

I also tried opening Caja as root and copying the files over but that didn’t work. I tried adjusting permissions of folders on the drive in Caja as administrator but got nowhere; just got an error saying it’s a read-only file system.

I’m concerned about using chown or chmod to change permissions on the whole drive since the permissions on the tablet are kinda weird in general.

The sdcard is formatted fat32. Any help is apperciated :slight_smile:

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I run into this from time to time here is how I make it work...Take ownership

open terminal

cd /media/YOUR_USER_NAME

list your current media

ls

will get you something like
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Jan 4 16:55 BackUp/
> drwxr-xr-x 4 blank blank 4.0K Jan 4 19:48 BackUp-2/
> drwxrwxrwx 1 blank blank 16K Dec 17 11:19 Seagate Expansion Drive/
> drwx------ 14 blank blank 4.0K Nov 2 18:53 Storage/

find the tablet here... lets say its "fire-tablet"
now take owner ship of this directory by typing

sudo chown -R USER_NAME:USER_NAME fire-tablet

Replace USER_NAME with yours and "fire-tablet" with yours that was listed

NOTE: lets say I wanted to take ownership of my Seagate drive it would look something like this because of the spaces in the name

sudo chown -R blank:blank Seagate\ Expansion\ Drive/

good luck