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Pavlyuch

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Registered: 2018-08-09

Posts: 4

Android W95 FAT32 (LBA) flashcard mounting as read-only

Hi guys!
I have a problem with my old android device Gsmart 1355. Flash card is mounting only in read-only mode. My another lenovo device and all other with FAT32 filesystem mounting as it should in read-write mode. Of course i installed dosfstools and exfat-utils. In fact, i installed ALL filesystems tools. I tried all the solution posted on internet but no avail. The strange thing is that in Ubuntu this flashcard mounting in read-write mode without problems. That means that it's all good with this flashcard and android device. So i suggesting that my arch linux system doesn't have some lib or other packages.  Here's the outputs if it helps you:
fdisk -l
Device     Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1  *     2048 7716863 7714816  3.7G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
lsblk
sdb              8:16   1   3.7G  1 disk 
└─sdb1           8:17   1   3.7G  1 part  /run/media/MY AMAZING USER NAME/75CC-1CF2
Hope you'll help me with this. This problem is not a big deal for me, because i can transfer files through ftp or Ubuntu. I just want to dig into the bottom of this strange issue and solve it.
Thanks in advance!

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Android W95 FAT32 (LBA) flashcard mounting as read-only

None of that shows what the filesystem is. What exactly happens when you mount it?

Pavlyuch

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Registered: 2018-08-09

Posts: 4

Re: Android W95 FAT32 (LBA) flashcard mounting as read-only

None of that shows what the filesystem is. What exactly happens when you mount it?

It's just mounts like in other systems. But in read-only mode
Tell me what to do to give you further info about filesystem and etc. Windows says that this flashcard is FAT32
Oh, also forgot to tell that my user is in STORAGE group and that with root account there is the same issue. If it helps with something

Last edited by Pavlyuch (2018-08-09 18:11:18)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,378

Re: Android W95 FAT32 (LBA) flashcard mounting as read-only

What is the output of `mount`?

Pavlyuch

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Registered: 2018-08-09

Posts: 4

Re: Android W95 FAT32 (LBA) flashcard mounting as read-only

What is the output of `mount`?

mount: /mnt/device666: WARNING: device write-protected, mounted read-only
Again, in Ubuntu and Windows it's not write protected