USB flash drive changes to read-only on the fly

[Florian Diesch]

Daniel Louw <daniel at dline.co.za> writes:

> I have this memory stick, a 2 GB one formatted with FAT32. 
>
> I was working on a .C file stored on the memory stick, saving as I made
> progress with the code. Then all of a sudden I cannot save anymore. I
> get an error saying the disk is read only. I cannot create new folders
> or files or anything. chmod doesn't work, it simply says read only
> partition. What the hell?

File systems get mounted read-only when file system errors occurs to
prevent further damage and data loss.


   Florian
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