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I just want to preface this by saying that I'm very new to Linux, so I'm sorry if I don't understand something that should be obvious.

Basically, I run Ubuntu off of a USB drive on my laptop. After I close the laptop and it goes into sleep mode, when I wake it up, the whole USB drive is in read-only. This was a pain the first time it happened because I couldn't save any of my work, and had to restart to fix the problem. What could the cause of this be, and how would I fix it? The next time I can, I'll get the logs and post them here. Thanks!

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    I'm not surprised that there is a problem resuming a USB hosted version of Ubuntu when coming out of sleep mode. The obvious solution would be to install Ubuntu on the Laptop HDD/SDD as either the sole OS or in a dual boot environment. Depending on your HW, there *MAY* be an option in BIOS to keep the USB port active even in sleep mode..... and/or setting the hw so that it doesn't sleep when closing the laptop lid. Or.... just frequently save your work.... – jones0610 Apr 14 '17 at 17:24

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Okay, I figured out a work-around. I just went into the settings and changed the action for closing the laptop to "do nothing."

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