On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 02:40:34PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > I have an external hard drive that for some reason in the last couple of > days was changed to a read-only file system. I have looked at > /etc/fstab and the drive is being mounted correctly as rw. I have > looked at the permissions of the drive and they all seem correct also. > Even if I am logged in as su, I am not able to delete any files on the > drive. Are other partitions (if any) on the same drive affected? Either way, you will probably find some useful hints in your system logs - searching for /dev/sdx (or whatever your device your drive shows up as) should do the trick. You might have to back a couple of days though. Which file system are you running? Some (most?) file systems will switch back to read-only mode if they discover some corruption. If this is the case, you should umount(1) it and run fsck on it before re-mounting... > Is there a way to change this so that the drive works correctly? All > the other drives are working properly, just not this one. Depends on what has gone wrong. Probably yes. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen karl@jorgensen.org.uk http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer. -- Larry Wall in <199709081901.MAA20863@wall.org>
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