SD card suddenly read-only

[Jason Straight]

On Monday 13 October 2008 20:19:24 Dotan Cohen wrote (Reply at bottom):
> 2008/10/14 Willy K. Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com>:
> > it looks like a corruptio in the filesystem. do you have a windows
> > machine? theyusually handle fat filesystems better, you can put it
> > there, and run chkdsk on it.
> > or you can use fsck.vfat in kubuntu (not sure if it's good, never tried
> > it before), but remember to umount it first.
> >
> > sudo umount /dev/sdb1
> > sudo fsck.vfat /dev/sdb1 -v -r
> > (-r will run it in interactive repair mode)
> >
> > if this doesn't solve it, i guess you're only option is
> >
> > sudo umount /dev/sdb1
> > sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /somewhere -o rw,force
> > (use at your own risk)
>
> I don't have access to a Windows machine, but I will format the card
> when I do. Thanks.

you can format it with linux as well - sudo mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/[sdcard]

or -F16 if you want fat16.


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