cannot change directory to 'write'able on USB stick

[jkwilborn]

Hi all... Having trouble with this and thought maybe someone can see the dumb mistake I'm making...

I have a 32 GB memory stick maned "32 GIG STIC" mounted at /media. When I try to change the contents of the stick it says I can't, yet I wrote them there... I'm trying to use emacs to edit the directory, which I've done before, but no luck here, always comes up as 'read only'.

I started at the root, and worked down to it. I am running as 'root'

Here is the code...

Code:
This is a cut portion from the root directory...
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drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Apr 1 08:00 lost+found
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 Apr 4 04:04 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 28 03:53 mnt
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This is the code to change it..

root@debian:/media# chmod -v guoa+rw "32 GIG STIC"
mode of `32 GIG STIC' changed from 0700 (rwx------) to 0766 (rwxrw-rw-)
root@debian:/media# ls -la
total 32
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 Apr 4 04:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Apr 1 14:02 ..
drwx------ 5 jack jack 16384 Apr 4 05:59 32 GIG STIC
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Apr 1 08:00 cdrom -> cdrom0
As you can see, it thinks it was changed, but doesn't appear as such... Any ideas?

Thanks

Jack

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