[wellylug] USB flash drive woes with 2.6.9

[jumbophut]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:58:47 +1300, Andrew wrote:
> 
> OK, an update on where I am with this. The little write-protect switch
> was set to unlock - read/write. I experimentally flicked this to lock,
> and it mounted fine. But it allowed me to 'touch' a new file, although
> that wasn't there when I umounted, replugged, and remounted. I tried
> flicking the switch back to unlock, but that just got me FAT errors.
> 

It's a long shot, but you could try mounting manually, using the -o
rw,sync switch with read/write mounting or the -o ro,noatime option
for read-only mounting.

The first will ensure that anything you write is committed to the
drive right away.  If you don't have sync set, there is a danger that
when you unplug the drive, some data will remain unwritten (e.g. your
touched file).

The second will ensure absolutely no writing takes place when you
mount read-only.  I believe (but haven't actually checked) that even
just reading a file adjusts the 'last accessed' information on the
disk.

If it was still using /dev/sda1, you would do something like:

mount -t vfat -o rw,sync,gid=0,uid=0,umask=0000 /dev/sda1 /mnt/mntdir

I suppose /dev/sda1 changes with udev.

(Apologies if this is teaching you to suck eggs).

Anyway, 'man mount' is your friend.

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