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Hi!
Something odd happens with my pendrive... I have installed a pidgin portable to it, and I wanted to use it to keep the chat history on it...
But after opening it I loose write access in the pendrive!
Before that everything works normal, I can write, I can run thunderbird & keepassx portable (wine too)... it is hapenning with that pidgin portable...
this is my fstab line:
/dev/sdb /mnt/pendrive auto iocharset=iso8859-1,user,rw,exec,noauto,umask=0 0 0
Any idea?
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Is something actually remounting it read-only, or do writes just mysteriously fail?
What's the output of the mount command (with no arguments) after running pidgin?
Do you get some kind of i/o error if you try to, for instance,
echo something > /mnt/pendrive/testwrite
syncDo you get the write error immediately after the 'echo', or does it happen only when something tries to actually write data out to the pendrive (the sync)? Also check
dmesg | tailafter trying the above -- anything interesting about write errors, USB resets, etc?
Does the problem go away if you
umount /mnt/pendrive
mount /mnt/pendriveor do you have to physically unplug & re-plug the pendrive to make it work again?
Also try:
- If you're getting USB resets, try a different USB port, preferably on the back of the machine.
- Try a different pen drive, or (if you've got one) a "normal" (i.e. spinning magnetic platter) external hard disk.
- Are you sure you're only losing write access? To test if you're losing read access too, unplug the pendrive, then plug it back in, mount it, run pidgin, and then try to read a file you definitely haven't accessed today -- it's possible that the pendrive is going offline completely, but since Linux caches any files you've already read, it'll look like you can still read those afterwards.
~Felix.
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Well... it looks like something bad was happening to that pendrive, maybe it was unplugged bad... I had to format it as a few files was broken or something (pidgin setup), no way to cop/remove/anything (tried as root)
Then I installed pidgin portable and it works ok...
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