From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SptiE-0004xr-BQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 04:12:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEE8FE0529; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 04:11:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643ADE0517 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 04:10:26 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgsKAG6Zu0/O+LHJ/2dsb2JhbABEsnYDgRiBCIIVAQEEATocKAsLNBIUJTeICQW6CYsIWoFEgjxiA40+h1yFX4g6gViDBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="193321722" Received: from 206-248-177-201.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([206.248.177.201]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 14 Jul 2012 00:10:24 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:10:19 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:10:19 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] usb stick files read only Message-ID: <20120714041019.GA7196@waltdnes.org> References: <20120714011714.GA8112@syscon7.inet> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120714011714.GA8112@syscon7.inet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: cb3f4b58-4554-4902-a09d-4c9fb2a871fd X-Archives-Hash: b758a15344828ce176e0f46c41dbf573 On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 07:17:14PM -0600, Joseph wrote > How to deal with it? > I the past changing the ownership always worked from root. If the mount process detects a problem, it'll set the filesystem as readonly. You'll have to back up the data from the stick, repartition and reformat the stick, and then restore the data. There's no guarantee that the data will be 100% correct. Try the following... open a terminal; su to root; execute the command... tail -f /var/log/messages insert the USB stick. Do you see any mention of filesystem panic in the output? -- Walter Dnes