Partition suddenly read-only -- help
I have three mounted vfat partitions. One has recently become read-only without my approval and despite my efforts to make it writable. Its permissions allow for full read/write/execute by all users and groups. Despite this all files and folders on this partition are write-protected. Whenever I try to make a change to this partition, I receive the following alert:
I am able to write to the other two partitions, which are on the same physical drive as the bad partition. Does anyone have any insight into why this problem exists? |
Note: These are generic comments, not specific to your distribution.
This is usually a symptom of a hard disk failure. Check you log files, usually in /var/log or try dmesg | tail. If the partition is read-only, you should be able to run e2fsck on it (as root) to see if it can be fixed. CAUTION: Do not run e2fsck on a logical volume partition. Run it on dev/mapper/<name> instead. e2fsck does not understand type 8E partitions. |
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