/dev/fd0 read only filesystem
patrick garnett
come up read only. I have tried all combinations of permissions and
read so much documentation I can only assume it is something blindingly
obvious to all but the most clueless newbie. (no, the diskette is not
write-protected) This system crashes often and I need to make a boot
disc and a rescue disc.
Patrick Garnett
Charlie Ebert
Reasons could be,
Your floppy is write protected.
You have the entry in /etc/floppy marked as read only.
The mount point /media/floppy has write permissions only
for root and not everyone.
Charlie
Ralf Bader
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:27:38 -0600, patrick garnett wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have any ideas why /dev/fd0 and /media/floppy should always
>> come up read only. I have tried all combinations of permissions and
>> read so much documentation I can only assume it is something blindingly
>> obvious to all but the most clueless newbie. (no, the diskette is not
>> write-protected) This system crashes often and I need to make a boot
>> disc and a rescue disc.
>>
>> Patrick Garnett
>>
>
> Reasons could be,
> Your floppy is write protected.
> You have the entry in /etc/floppy marked as read only.
...in /etc/fstab...see man fstab
patrick garnett
> Charlie Ebert wrote:
>
>
>>On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:27:38 -0600, patrick garnett wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Does anyone have any ideas why /dev/fd0 and /media/floppy should always
>>>come up read only. I have tried all combinations of permissions and
>>>read so much documentation I can only assume it is something blindingly
>>>obvious to all but the most clueless newbie. (no, the diskette is not
>>>write-protected) This system crashes often and I need to make a boot
>>>disc and a rescue disc.
>>>
>>>Patrick Garnett
>>>
>>>
>>Reasons could be,
>>Your floppy is write protected.
>>You have the entry in /etc/floppy marked as read only.
>>>The mount point /media/floppy has write permissions only
>>for root and not everyone.
>>
>>Charlie
Even when permissions are...
>linux:~ # ls -l /media/floppy
total 1
drwxrwxrwx 2 root users 35 Sep 22 06:08 .
drwxrwxrwx 5 root users 104 Dec 23 04:39 ..
and...
linux:~ # ls -l /dev/fd0
brwxrwxrwx 1 root users 2, 0 Sep 23 18:54 /dev/fd0
linux:~ # fdformat /dev/fd0
returns
/dev/fd0: Read-only file system
whether entered as root or as user. /etc/fstab does not show fd0 as read
only, leaving me even more baffled than ever.
> ....in /etc/fstab...see man fstab
>
>
>>The mount point /media/floppy has write permissions only
>>for root and not everyone.
>>
>>Charlie
Thanks! I checked /etc/fstab, still set to SuSe defaults and found...
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
which looks like it isn't read-only in /fstab. I did, however, find...
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
which may explain why using cdrw instead didn't work either, and would
have been my next posted desparation query. I think deleting the "ro"
should default it back to rw.
Incidently I also found the swap partitions listed as
/dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
/dev/hdb1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
which seems to contradict man fstab which reads
The second field, (fs_file), describes the mount point for
the filesystem. For swap partitions, this field should be
specified as `none'.
and...
The third field, (fs_vfstype), describes the type of the
filesystem.
So shouldn't the entries for swap read
/dev/hda1 none swap pri=42 0 0?
and
dev/hdb1 none swap pri=42 0 0?
or have new versions of fstab overtaken the manual?
But I digress...
Baffled to the core I'm going to reinstall a new configuration or two
and worry about it later. Can't save any data though, and I'll have to
download all those updates yet again... Thanks for the help...I'll know
where to start looking next time. Could it be hardware?