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KDE automounting of usbstick was not allowing me to copy files to usbstick. Surprising it allows one file to be copied. next file it says stick is readonly file system. To avoid that, I stopped kde from mounting it. I did

pmount -w -s -u022 /dev/sda1 pendrive
It allowed me to write to the pendrive
But when I tried with unison for file sync, I get error saying pendrive is readonly file system?
Any solutions?
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L.V.Gandhi
http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
linux user No.205042

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usbstick, pmount and unison problem

Submitted by Michael S. Peek on Wed, 2007-01-31 15:00.

L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> KDE automounting of usbstick was not allowing me to copy files to
> usbstick. Surprising it allows one file to be copied. next file it
> says stick is readonly file system. To avoid that, I stopped kde from
> mounting it. I did
> pmount -w -s -u022 /dev/sda1 pendrive
> It allowed me to write to the pendrive
> But when I tried with unison for file sync, I get error saying
> pendrive is readonly file system?
> Any solutions?
> --
> L.V.Gandhi
> http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
> linux user No.205042
The first thing that comes to mind is a filesystem error. If the kernel
encounters some error while writing to the drive, it may be switching
the mount from read+write to read-only. You might check your system log
files for any error messages regarding /dev/sda1, and try fsck'ing
/dev/sda1 while it's unmounted.

Michael

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