I have my computer set up with a large vfat partition in which I keep a lot of data. Until yesterday I could happily read and write to this partition, but suddenly today I find that I am unable to write to this partition at all- I get a message saying that the file system is read-only. My fstab is setup the way Mandrake 7.2 did it by default. /dev/hda7 / reiserfs notail 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom1 /mnt/dvd supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom1 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/common vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 When I issue mount -l -t vfat I get: /dev/hda5 on /mnt/common type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=0) /dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=0) The baffling thing is that I have not changes fstab or anything else- the only thing that I did do was move my zip drive to another computer- but I've mived it back since. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
