[SOLVED] USB stick automounts but cannot change Read Write permissions

[javier_mina]

Thanks very much for your response.  There is no protection at play and it happens with most of my USB sticks.  Here is the output:

steve@steve-Aspire-one:~$ ls -l /media
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root  4096 Jun 21  2013 cdrom
drwx------ 3 steve steve 4096 Dec 31  1969 New Volume
steve@steve-Aspire-one:~$ ls -l /media/steve
ls: cannot access /media/steve: No such file or directory
steve@steve-Aspire-one:~$

The other puzzling aspect is that I can write and delete files; however, after delete, they " disappear" on the file listing using Thunar, but still occupy space on the stick and show as number of files under properties.  That's why I tried reformatting as FAT using the Disk Utility.

Hopefully you can help.