On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 16:33 +0530, Lakshmipathi.G wrote: > Hi - > I have an USB drive formatted as readonly ISO9660 . I need to reformat > it . I have tried normal mkfs. But they failed saying "read-only > filesystem" . Then tried gparted, Its also not working,seems like not > even detecting usb. Running from command line "parted -l" says- > > Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr1 read-write (Read-only file > system). /dev/sr1 > has been opened read-only. > Error: /dev/sr1: unrecognised disk label > > Any thoughts? > >
How do you format a drive as "read only"? When my usb showed this behaviour, it had meant that the drive had gone bad. Ankur _______________________________________________ india mailing list india@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
