[Solved] All devices are mounted in read-only mode

explorer · 2013-02-10 10:13:00

All devices are mounted in read-only mode. I can not create, copy, delete.

My system.

uname -a
Linux localhost 3.7.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 4 09:15:13 CET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Last edited by explorer (2013-02-19 20:55:05)

eticre · 2013-02-10 10:33:44

Hi

Search the output of "journalctl -b" command for possible error.

spottedgeckgo · 2013-02-10 13:54:10

I was having this same problem with XFCE, are you using XFCE (or a WM of any kind?)

if so, I put this in my .initrc, I think I had to install udiskie first:

## USB auto-detect
udiskie &

autodetect is working fine, can't remember if there was anything else that I needed to do. Also, check the wiki article on udev.

explorer · 2013-02-13 20:29:52

I am using KDE. Still not working.

jasonwryan · 2013-02-13 20:35:05

explorer wrote:

Still not working.

This is not really helpful. What have you tried? What filesystems are you working with?

Please read How To Ask Questions The Smart Way and try and provide some meaningful information if you are expecting people to help you...

┌─[Veles ~]
└─╼ sudo pacman -S mind-reading-skills
error: target not found: mind-reading-skills

explorer · 2013-02-14 06:25:04

Root system -ext4 mounting with read write .
Partition for files - ext2 mounting with read-only.
USB Flash drive - ntfs mounting with read-only.

dmesg | tail
[ 712.831427] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 712.831433] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 712.834681] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 712.834688] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 712.835178] sdb: sdb1
[ 712.837289] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 712.837295] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 712.837300] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 715.144461] NTFS driver 2.1.30 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
[ 715.510333] NTFS volume version 3.1.

explorer · 2013-02-14 06:28:19

Install udiskie from AUR and add line in file /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

## USB auto-detect
udiskie &

spottedgeckgo · 2013-02-14 12:35:58

Did a quick google search "ntfs read only arch"
Directed me here.
Found this line...

Your NTFS partition(s) can be setup to mount automatically, or pre-configured to be able to mount in a certain way when you would like them to be mounted. This configuration can be done in the static filesystem configuration (fstab) or by the use of udev rules. 
...
By default, ntfs-3g requires root rights to mount the filesystem, even with the "user" option in /etc/fstab, the reason why can be found here. The user option in the fstab is still required. To be able to mount as user, a few tweaks need to be made:
...
If an NTFS filesystem has errors on it, NTFS-3G will mount it as read-only. To fix an NTFS filesystem, load Windows and run its disk checking program, chkdsk. Take in account that ntfsfix can only repair some errors. If it fails, chkdsk will probably succeed.

It's an interesting article for the package ntfs-3g. I double checked cause I didn't recognize the package and I don't have it installed on my machine, but it might be worth a look, as the scope of the article goes beyond the ntfs-3g package.

explorer · 2013-02-15 06:41:51

Reinstall package ntfs-3g and now USB drives mounted with rw option.

Hard drives mounted with the option rw, but how to disable the root password prompt for the file manager Dolphin?

Last edited by explorer (2013-02-15 06:42:55)

spottedgeckgo · 2013-02-15 12:59:12

Glad to hear your USB drives are working now. I don't use Dolphin so I can't help you there, but were it me, I would open another thread for Dolphin.

explorer · 2013-02-19 20:53:50

And now my ext2 partition mounted with rw option.

Thank you all for the help.

Arch Linux

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