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gdc34
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 Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 11:36 pm Post subject: Read-only? |
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I've got two fat32 partitions. Here is the relevant part of my fstab
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/dev/hda5 /mnt/fat1 vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/fat2 vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
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The umask=000 should give everyone read and write access
However, if I say try to delete a file on /dev/hda5:
e.g. rm testfile
I get:
rm: cannot remove `testfile': Read-only file system
This happens whether I'm root or not.
However, I have no such problems with /dev/hdb1 which I have set up exactly the same.
I would be really grateful for any help offered. |
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pzilla
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 4:48 am Post subject: |
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Looks like it's not a question of setting umask in /etc/fstab. If you can't write in a mounted disk even when you are root, it's probably mounted as read-only. Try the command mount alone in the shell prompt. I get this in my case:
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/dev/hda2 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
/dev/hda7 on /mnt/backup type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/dos type vfat (rw,umask=111,gid=0)
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There in the /dev/hda1 entry, after the device path and name, (rw,...) stands for read-write. Check if it's (ro,...) in your case. If it is, try this command:
| Code: | | # mount /mnt/fat1 -o remount,rw |
This will remount the device as read-write. If you can't remount the device as read-write, maybe you should try scanning it for errors. Check if the messages during boot give you any clue.
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gdc34
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Great, cheers for the help. |
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