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I had USB stick (fat32) that reported file system corruption on mount and
hence was mounted read-only. No amount of umount/dosfsck/mount could make it
rw again. dosfsck reported device as clean but it still would mount ro and I
continued to see directory that had been deleted by the very first dosfsck
run! I unplugged it, looked under Win2k - it was OK - and only then did I
notice that directory claimed as corrupted did not even exist. Replugging
it - mounted OK.
I am not sure if this is a bug or "work as designed". May be this is specific
fat32 problem; still it does not look right?
TIA
- -andrey
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On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> I had USB stick (fat32) that reported file system corruption on mount and
> hence was mounted read-only. No amount of umount/dosfsck/mount could make it
> rw again. dosfsck reported device as clean but it still would mount ro and I
> continued to see directory that had been deleted by the very first dosfsck
> run! I unplugged it, looked under Win2k - it was OK - and only then did I
> notice that directory claimed as corrupted did not even exist. Replugging
> it - mounted OK.
>
> I am not sure if this is a bug or "work as designed". May be this is specific
> fat32 problem; still it does not look right?
I think at the first mount time there was a read error for an unknown
reason, and this turned the partition (not the filesystem) into read-only
mode. All further mount attempts only found a read-only medium, and thus
where only able to mount read-only. I've been bitten by this more than
once, too - there seems to be no way to avoid a reboot/replug when one of
your data disks has thrown a read error, taking (for me) the whole server
down, when just one unimportant data-disk thinks it has problems again (as
happens with my home-server about once every one or two weeks).
c'ya
sven
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