Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Jan 2021 at 20:30:22 (+0800), kaye n wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 5:20 PM wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:27:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:31 +0800 kaye n wrote: > > > > > > > When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can ed

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-30 22:00, kaye n wrote: Hello Friends! When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flash drive. But after I try to copy several dbf files from the desktop computer hard drive to the flash drive via the terminal, it

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
(I've replied publicly again, as I'm not the only person who may be able to advise you on this, and I don't see any reason for this to have been taken off-list. If your reply being direct instead of via the list was intentional, then I apologize.) On 2021-01-31 at 08:28, kaye n wrote: > On Sun, J

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-01-31 at 07:30, kaye n wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 5:20 PM wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:27:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: >>> Are the files marked read only (ro), or is the entire flash >>> drive mounted ro? > > The dbf files seem to be READ WRITE EXECUTE for OWNER, G

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread kaye n
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 5:20 PM wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:27:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:31 +0800 > > kaye n wrote: > > > > > When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit > > > certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flas

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:27:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:31 +0800 > kaye n wrote: > > > When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit > > certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flash drive. But after I > > try to copy several dbf fil

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:31 +0800 kaye n wrote: > When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit > certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flash drive. But after I > try to copy several dbf files from the desktop computer hard drive to > the flash drive via the termina

Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-30 Thread kaye n
Hello Friends! When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flash drive. But after I try to copy several dbf files from the desktop computer hard drive to the flash drive via the terminal, it says it's read only. When I open the

Re: / suddenly Read-only

2006-01-16 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 1/17/06, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > This can indicate a problem with the filesystem is throwing errors. > > Your root filesystem is typically mounted with an 'errors=remount-ro' > > option, meaning the drive is remounted read-only if an error occurs. > >

Re: / suddenly Read-only

2006-01-16 Thread Ken Heard
Karsten M. Self wrote: This can indicate a problem with the filesystem is throwing errors. Your root filesystem is typically mounted with an 'errors=remount-ro' option, meaning the drive is remounted read-only if an error occurs. This particular option is at the moment causing me considerable

Re: / suddenly Read-only

2006-01-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:59:41PM -0700, jonathan ferguson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > on Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:06:46 -0800 Karsten M. Self" > (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > >> For mysterious reasons a Dual-boot (Windows/Linux) Toshiba 5105-s901 > >> running Debian/GNU 3.1 Sarge 2.6.8 (wit

Re: / suddenly Read-only

2006-01-05 Thread jonathan ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 on Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:06:46 -0800 Karsten M. Self" (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > For mysterious reasons a Dual-boot (Windows/Linux) Toshiba 5105-s901 > running Debian/GNU 3.1 Sarge 2.6.8 (with updates) suddenly fails to > mount read-write the r

Re: / suddenly Read-only

2006-01-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 04:46:04PM -0700, jonathan ferguson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi. > > For mysterious reasons a Dual-boot (Windows/Linux) Toshiba 5105-s901 > running Debian/GNU 3.1 Sarge 2.6.8 (with updates) suddenly fails to > mount read-write the root partition during boot. This

/ suddenly Read-only

2006-01-04 Thread jonathan ferguson
hi. For mysterious reasons a Dual-boot (Windows/Linux) Toshiba 5105-s901 running Debian/GNU 3.1 Sarge 2.6.8 (with updates) suddenly fails to mount read-write the root partition during boot. For about 3 months *after* i had installed a new Toshiba 100GiB drive, the system has worked beautiful

Re: filesystem suddenly read-only - how come?

2001-11-16 Thread Erik Steffl
nate wrote: > > Erik Steffl said: > > > (that was the only error) > > try forcing a bad block scan. when ive gotten that remounting > error i had bad blocks. a good sign for a failing drive or > otherwise misconfigured system(cable too long, controller > going bad, bad driver etc) would be if t

Re: filesystem suddenly read-only - how come?

2001-11-16 Thread nate
Erik Steffl said: > (that was the only error) try forcing a bad block scan. when ive gotten that remounting error i had bad blocks. a good sign for a failing drive or otherwise misconfigured system(cable too long, controller going bad, bad driver etc) would be if the system says FILE SYSTE

Re: filesystem suddenly read-only - how come?

2001-11-16 Thread Erik Steffl
nate wrote: > > Erik Steffl said: > > system: debian unstable, kernel 2.4.10 > > > > my /home filesystem was suddenly read-only, here' what I've found: > > > I mounted the filesystem, restarted xdm and everything looks ok... > > any > >

Re: filesystem suddenly read-only - how come?

2001-11-16 Thread nate
Erik Steffl said: > system: debian unstable, kernel 2.4.10 > > my /home filesystem was suddenly read-only, here' what I've found: > I mounted the filesystem, restarted xdm and everything looks ok... > any > ideas on what's going on? while i can't s

filesystem suddenly read-only - how come?

2001-11-16 Thread Erik Steffl
system: debian unstable, kernel 2.4.10 my /home filesystem was suddenly read-only, here' what I've found: /var/log/syslog: ... Nov 15 23:38:01 localhost /USR/SBIN/CRON[18175]: (list) CMD ([ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f /usr/lib/mailman/cron/q runner ] && /usr/bin/python /us