[SOLVED]Problems with getting a darn USB key to mount as rw filesystem

lilsirecho · 2008-01-10 00:22:36

I ran the test of my flash drive which has a 25MB first partition and find that it is r/w.

I have it identified in fstab as follows:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1_rmv vfat defaults 0  0

I also ran :

mount -o remount,r/w /mnt/sda1_rmv

This command was accepted but only if the drive was already mounted..it rejects the command if not already mounted.

Unfortunately, I cannot prove that it changes the permissions since they were already r/w.

I verified that r/w was possible by entering a folder and removing same.

lilsirecho · 2008-01-10 00:27:32

The partition that I mounted was not a bootable partition.

The second partition is bootable and is ext3 and does mount rw . It is identified as sda2_rmv ext3.

lilsirecho · 2008-01-10 05:08:25

One last suggestion....look at the status of your flash drive with gparted......for any clue.

Cippa Lippa · 2008-01-12 16:29:23

thhanks lilsirecho

used gparted. I removed the boot and lda flags from the usb without any luck
I was able somehow to copy files to the usb but they were copied empty

I'll try to install gnome-volume-manager and I'll let you know

Cippa Lippa · 2008-01-12 16:34:57

now...

with gnome-volume-manager if I hotplug the drive it tells me that I am not privileged enough to mount to damn drive... how can one override the fact that one has to be root to mount the damn drive!?

Cippa Lippa · 2008-01-12 16:53:41

SOLVED!

I know you guys will lynch me
it was a problem with udev rules
I made a file in /etc/udev/rules.d including the rules at the end of http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev
That solved all the problem. Now hotplugging delivers a new folder in media which rw for every user

Great!!!

sorry guys for having you chase a chimera!

Cippa

Cippa Lippa · 2008-01-12 16:58:00

one last note

as my hard drive is a SATA I had to chance the code listed in the wiki so that all the "sd[a-z]" would be written as "sd[b-z]"

cheers

schivmeister · 2008-01-12 17:17:40

Ye know something, I've faced something like this, but with an SD Card. And man was it weird. I desperately tried to go through a few troubleshooting steps within the first 5 mins. It was a 1GB mini in a normal SD adapter. I alsa had a normal SD, smaller sized 512MB. So i took that one out, inserted it, and surprisingly it worked read-write. I was baffled. And then, i inserted the one which didn't work, and suddenly it also worked. I guess somehow the partition access routine got refreshed. I didn't even have to add any udev rules.

And I don't like defining temp storage in fstab, i like it dynamic so the mounted filename resembles the label. So HAL and KDE's KIO are my best friends.

Last edited by schivmeister (2008-01-12 17:19:16)

Cippa Lippa · 2008-01-12 22:37:37

yep, I also got the feeling that this all automount is kind of flaky... especially since few people seem to get the hang of it.

Cheers

lilsirecho · 2008-01-13 01:18:23

Change title to (solved) when you are satisfied.

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