[SLE] Mount problem - why read-only?

From: Steve Crane (ndeyahnn02_at_sneakemail.com)
Date: 07/31/03

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    I installed SuSE 8.1 on this machine a few weeks ago and had no problems
    writing to my FAT drives before yesterday. However, when I tried to
    write to one of them (/windows/D) last night I was informed that the
    file system was read-only. As far as I can tell this should not be the
    case and another FAT drive (/windows/E), which as far as I can tell, is
    configured the same is writable. This occurs both for my user account
    and for root. Any ideas?

    The /etc/fstab entries for the two drives are

      /dev/hdd1 /windows/D vfat
        users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0
      /dev/hda6 /windows/E vfat
        users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0

    the /etc/mtab entries are

      /dev/hdd1 /windows/D vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,
        umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1, code=437 0 0
      /dev/hda6 /windows/E vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,
        umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0

    and these are the mount points

      drwxrwxr-x 49 root users 16384 1970-01-01 02:00 D
      drwxrwxr-x 10 root users 8192 2003-07-30 20:33 E

    I recall something similar happening on my previous machine where a FAT
    drive that had been writable was suddenly read-only. That time I
    spotted that I had done something stupid and I suspect something
    similar, but I can't remember what it was.

    Thanks. 

    -- 
Steve Crane
http://craniac.afraid.org
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