Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Nilesh Govindrajan <contact@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] usb stick files read only
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:46:10
Message-Id: CAHgBc-tgx6rEuRuUFUsZ---99ywdRJ+mS7-2BBHw2g513Xx5vA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] usb stick files read only by Joseph
1 On Jul 14, 2012 6:48 AM, "Joseph" <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > I've a usbstick formated with ext2 file system and must have use it on a
4 different computer because when mount the usb stick I get file ownership:
5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 test users 692926 Jan 7 2012 asterisk_1_4_39.tar.gz
6 > -rw-r--r-- 1 test users 8502 Jul 21 2011 asterisk-help.txt
7 > -rw-r--r-- 1 joseph 1000 22696 Mar 26 18:27
8 asus_10-0-0-1_shaw_nvrambak.bin
9 > -rw-r--r-- 1 joseph 1000 22459 Mar 26 16:16
10 asus_home_10-10-0-1.nvrambak.bin
11 >
12 > The ownership should be joseph:users but when I try to change (as root)
13 it I get : Read-only file system
14 > chown -R joseph:users /media/stick/*
15 > chown: changing ownership of `/media/stick/asterisk_1_4_39.tar.gz':
16 Read-only file system
17 > chown: changing ownership of `/media/stick/asterisk-help.txt': Read-only
18 file system
19 >
20 > How to deal with it?
21 > I the past changing the ownership always worked from root.
22 >
23 > --
24 > Joseph
25 >
26
27 The file system probably has errors. See dmesg. Also, run fsck -vfy
28 /dev/usbdev (replace usbdev with sdc or whatever).
29
30 That should fix the problem.