Re: vfat filesystem mysteriously becomes read-only

On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:06:05AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: [snip] > Directory sread (sector 0x8000100b) failed > attempt to access beyond end of device > 03:01: rw=0, want=1073743878, limit=1048288 > Directory sread (sector 0x8000100b) failed > attempt to access beyond end

vfat filesystem mysteriously becomes read-only

I have a partition that has Windows 98 installed on it. When Linux is running, I have it regularly copy a few useful files onto the Windows 98 partition, as a simple backup. I do the copying with an entry in my crontab (this particular entry converts my .mailrc into a form that Outlook Express ca