Daniel Davies wrote: > Andrew Jenkins wrote: > >> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">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. >> >> >> </div> >> > This could be to do with unmounting. Did you unmount the drives properly > before disconnecting them? > Right click; Unmount device or Eject. > Daniel Davies > > I'm pretty certain I did but then we all make mistakes. If that's what caused it how do I put it right (without a reformat that is)?
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