automatic usb harddisk mounting

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Thursday, May 3rd 2007, 7:15pm

Hey there,

I've been having some troubles with my usb harddisk. It automatically mounts, and Konqueror pops up a window, but it gives "Read-only file system" errors, even when it appears to be mounted read-write.

There is something very buggy about this and I'd like to get into contact with the people that are responsible for this auto-mounting or that have some knowledge about the process and that are supposed to know about this problem.

The problem sometimes just dissappears. Usually I can write to the filesystem a couple of times and then it suddenly switches into read-only mode. Or, I cannot write to it at all, to start with. Or, it starts read-only, and then it becomes read-write later.

Anyway,
is this a kernel issue? Should I contact kernel programmers? Is it a KDE issue? Where can I take this?

greetings,

Xen.

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kriko

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Location: Slovenia

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Friday, May 4th 2007, 9:20am

I think this is an issue with your drive. Please take a look at dmesg, when you're mounting:

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1	sudo tail -f /var/log/messages

to see why it is being mounted read-only. It might be corrupted, as I had same problem with my flash drive. Backup data, reformat.

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xenmaster

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Monday, May 7th 2007, 2:28pm

Hey kriko,

thanks for the reply. I had before looked into /var/log/messages, but did not find anything useful, but now with the tail this came up:

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1 2 3	May 7 15:12:24 linux kernel: FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sda1) May 7 15:12:24 linux kernel: invalid access to FAT (entry 0xffffffff) May 7 15:12:24 linux kernel: File system has been set read-only