From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] usb stick files read only
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:43:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120714044320.GB8112@syscon7.inet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120714041019.GA7196@waltdnes.org>
On 07/14/12 00:10, Walter Dnes wrote:
>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 <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
It could be that the USB reader problem, it was giving me problem for some time and not fall apart :-/
Will get a new one tomorrow and try it.
--
Joseph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-14 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-14 1:17 [gentoo-user] usb stick files read only Joseph
2012-07-14 1:44 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-07-14 4:10 ` Walter Dnes
2012-07-14 4:43 ` Joseph [this message]
2012-07-14 15:46 ` Alan McKinnon
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