On 02/26/2011 11:01 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I should know how to do this, but I don't. Or maybe it can't be fixed. > > The computer is a Thinkpad T61 with Fedora 14, x86_64. The device is a > Transcend 32 GB SDHC card. According to dmesg it mounts automatically > when inserted at /media/FC30-3DA9/. The filesystem is vfat, which is > how it was formatted when I bought it. Any attempt to copy files to it > results in "the device is read-only." > > The card has a slider on the side to lock the card, reminiscent of the > slider switch on ancient floppies. But it doesn't matter which position > I place the switch in, I cannot copy files to it, either with Nautilus > or from the command line as jjj or as root. According to Nautilus I am > the owner of the device. > > As root I can umount it and then mount it again. But if I mount it with > the -w switch it gives me an error message that the device is read-only: > > [root@Devil8 media]# mkdir SDC > [root@Devil8 media]# mount -w /dev/mmcblk1 /media/SDC/ > mount: block device /dev/mmcblk1 is write-protected but explicit `-w' > flag given > > And curiously, even thought I told it to mount the device > at /media/SDC/ it is mounted at /media/FC30-3DA9. From a plain mount > command after mounting it as above I get: > > /dev/mmcblk1p1 on /media/FC30-3DA9 type vfat > (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=500,gid=500,shortname=mixed, > dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush) > > Maybe the device is defective, like the slider switch is not unlocking > it? Maybe I don't know what I'm doing? > I ran into this problem recently it turned out to be the permissions on the dir it was mounted to that were the issue for me.
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