On 28/01/2008, Andrew Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set > it up I had it connected as an external USB drive. > All was going well, fdisk, mkfs, etc. and I moved a > couple of Gb of files to it. > > After I disconnected it and plugged it back into my > machine it suddenly decided to be a read-only file > system. I remember a pen-drive of mine doing the > same thing and I ended up having to redo the mkfs to > cure it. This isn't a problem with a 512Mb pen > drive but with a 500Gb drive with over 100Gb of files > already on there it's not really an option. > > Any other answers? I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 (Gnome). > > Andy Jenkins.
Hi Andy, I have the same problem with my drive. I unmounted it properly, and still had the problem. I haven't found a solution yet, but I did find a work-around. Run "sudo chown <user>:\ /media/<mountpoint>" in a terminal, and you're able to write to the drive again. Obviously, change <user> to your username, and <mountpoint> to the directory at which the drive is automounted. E.g. my command was actually "sudo chown neil:\ /media/FREECOM". HTH. I'm interested in any long-term solution too. Hwyl, Neil. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
