[plug] usb card reader

[Bill Kenworthy]

Ahh, think my problem is I mounted it vfat, and copied over some long
filenames which are now invalid.

a bit of selective "rm -rf <file>" worked wonders.

Thanks for the hint which put me on track.

BillK


On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 14:56, James Budworth wrote:
> I've come across a similar thing with my Zaurus and an incompatible card.
> the problem seems to be that the file system is getting corrupt and so 
> will mount only as read only.
> 
> If you do a fsck_msdos on it and then try again it will likely fix it.
> 
> But you may want to be careful with it in the future.
> 
> On Fri, 7 May 2004, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> 
> > Have a bit of a weird problem
> > 
> > I used a usb 3 in 1 reader to back up some files onto a 256M SD card a
> > few weeks back.  Worked fine at the time, but the person I did this for
> > has just come back and said that the card plugged into it is now read
> > only under windows.  
> > 
> > Sure enough, it mounts read only under linux (fedora and the original
> > laptop which is gentoo), and can only be forced to rw as a remount.  The
> > lock is "off"
> > 
> > There are a few references to this on the net, but they are of no use or
> > in German etc.
> > 
> > Has anyone stumbled across this before?
> > 
> > BillK
> 
> --
> James Budworth
> 
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