ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 15, Issue 270

[peter]

> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:04:04 -0500
> From: John DeCarlo <johndecarlo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: usb storage now only read only
> To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> On 11/22/05, peter <peter at petebox.com> wrote:
> >
> > Since upgrading to breezy I found that usb mass storage devices whilst
> > still mounting nicely and appearing on the desk top now claim to be read
> > only file systems, even as root I cant do anything of any use. Adding
> > the device to fstab and mounting in the traditional way still wont work.
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> 
> Peter, you may want to file a bug on this.  I have heard of this happening
> to several other people as well.
> 
> It hasn't happened to me, or the large majority of people (AFAIK), so more
> investigation probably needs to be done.
> 
> 
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> John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
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>Yes I think I will have too. To answer the other points just for the
>record it is a fat filsystem which previously worked in 5.04 mounting it
>explicity with the rw option still gives the "read only filesystem
>error". 

>Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

>peter

For the record this was bug number 8428 and was caused by a corruption in the file system of the
usb device which the kernel detected and so mounted read only using fdisk.vfat on it fixed the 
problem.

peter