Andrew Jenkins wrote:
Daniel Davies wrote:
Andrew Jenkins wrote:
<div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">I've
recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set
it up I had it connected as an external USB drive.
All was going well, fdisk, mkfs, etc. and I moved a
couple of Gb of files to it.
After I disconnected it and plugged it back into my
machine it suddenly decided to be a read-only file
system. I remember a pen-drive of mine doing the
same thing and I ended up having to redo the mkfs to
cure it. This isn't a problem with a 512Mb pen
drive but with a 500Gb drive with over 100Gb of files
already on there it's not really an option.
Any other answers? I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 (Gnome).
Andy Jenkins.
</div>
This could be to do with unmounting. Did you unmount the drives properly
before disconnecting them?
Right click; Unmount device or Eject.
Daniel Davies
I'm pretty certain I did but then we all make mistakes. If that's what
caused it how
do I put it right (without a reformat that is)?
Andy.
What type of filesystem is on the disk? Running an fsck on the
filesystem may cure the problem (an ext3 or reiser filesystem may have a
corrupt/unclean journal which can be fixed at the possible cost of the
last few files written to it). Moreso with larger drives, I've found
that unmounting takes a long time when there are lots of unwritten data
pending, if you don't allow it to complete the effects can be devastating.
Regards,
Tom
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