Roger Searle wrote: > Well I shouldn't have spoken so soon, it's broken again! Suddenly back > to the same problem with not being able to write to any of the folders. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] win_d]# touch /mnt/win_d empty2 > touch: setting times of `/mnt/win_d': Read-only file system > touch: cannot touch `empty2': Read-only file system > [EMAIL PROTECTED] win_d]# > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] win_d]# mount | grep win_d > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 on /mnt/win_d type vfat > (rw,codepage=850,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] win_d]# > > Interesting! No idea what's going on . . .
Boot back into windows and run a scandisk on the drive with a surface check too (I presume you're running windows by the naming of the partition) If its an intermittent problem like that I'd guess that the drive is failing or something along those lines. Sascha