mounted fat32 filesystem becomes readonly after sometime, wierd?
Hi,
I have two fat32 partitions which I've mounted under /win1 & /win2 respectively. The lines corresponding to those in /etc/fstab are : Code:
/dev/hda1 /win1 vfat defaults,umask=000 1 0 Thanks in anticipation. |
No idea, but you may be able to grep through your dmesg to see if there are any corresponding entries for /dev/hda5 to help you diagnose the problem.
dmesg | grep hda5 dmesg | grep win2 You might also check your system log and see if /proc has anything about it. Check /etc/mtab after it gets mounted just to see if it actually is. Lastly, are you sure it's becoming read-only, or is it just specific files? Cool |
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I tried using dmesg but it's giving me problems as well. The output of dmesg is : Code:
koodoo@knapsacker:~$ dmesg Code:
Nov 1 04:53:29 knapsacker kernel: 03:05: rw=0, want=1050881691, limit=9783553 Code:
Partition check: /etc/mtab shows that it's mounted when I mount it. BTW If this might be useful, my system's been up for 9 days. Here's the output of uptime : Code:
koodoo@knapsacker:~$ uptime |
Hi,
So I restarted my P.C. (after a long time). When I run the dmesg command I get a lot of output but there are only two lines repeated over and over again. Code:
Neighbour table overflow. |
Neighbour table overflow: http://groups.google.com.au/group/fa...c9cf107fb29f07
Probably doesn't have anything to do with your FAT32 drive problem. |
Hi thanks Tkedwards for the help and sorry for replying so very late. I searched google as well as these forums for Neighbour Table Overflow problems. It seems that this problem is because the arp cache gets overflowed because of :
1) Some application that generates much traffic (eg. Lisa) 2) Some machine in your subnet that generates a lot of traffic and 3) Related things Possible solutions included : 1) Increasing the size of the arp cache 2) Shutting down services like Lisa and, 3) Identifying machines generating a lot of traffic and shutting them down. I tried all of these but none worked for me. I guess I'll stick with one of these threads to get my problem solved : 1) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...table+overflow 2) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...table+overflow 3) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...table+overflow 4) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...table+overflow 5) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...table+overflow 6) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...table+overflow Seems like a lot of people are having problems with this. The good part however is that amazingly my /win2 partition has stopped becoming read-only on its own (I seriously don't know why?). I'll post the output of dmesg as soon as I am able to get it working. Thanks again for the help. |
it may have been a cluster problem. i had the same problem and read a forum saying that using /sbin/fsck.vfat will remove the cluster problem. after i did it i had no more problems.
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