[Bug 38731] Cannot delete on external FAT USB Drive

[Bastian Doetsch]

Public bug reported:

Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Major
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
Hi,

I'm running dapper with the most current updates (...on the german
mirror...).

uname -a returns the following:

Linux basti 2.6.15-20-k7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 4 19:26:13 UTC 2006 i686
GNU/Linux

Unfortunately, as I tried to delete something from my external usb
harddrive, it just panicked and switched to read-only mode.

here the dmesg output (of several tries, including mounting, unmounting)

[4294733.329000] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[4294733.466000] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
[4294734.065000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
[4294825.545000] FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sde1)
[4294825.545000]     fat_free_clusters: deleting FAT entry beyond EOF
[4294825.545000]     File system has been set read-only
[4295143.017000] usb 5-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address  3
[4295164.063000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
[4295194.165000] usb 5-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address  3
[4295195.268000] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[4295236.210000] FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sde1)
[4295236.210000]     fat_free_clusters: deleting FAT entry beyond EOF
[4295236.210000]     File system has been set read-only
[4295276.428000] Warning: /proc/ide/hd?/settings interface is obsolete, and will  be removed soon!
[4295276.730000] NTFS driver 2.1.25 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
[4295276.772000] NTFS volume version 3.1.

lsusb shows the following for the drive (a philips SPD5110CC):

Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0471:0829 Philips

** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
     Severity: Normal => Major
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Cannot delete on external FAT USB Drive
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/38731