--Post results of ' fdisk -l ' and ' mount ' when you have the USB drive mounted. (You are doing the mount cmd as root, right?)
Originally Posted by SenorLoco
Hi, Im having troubles getting my diskonkey usb drive to work. I can get the drive mounted using 'mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey' and I can see the drive and everything but I can't write to it. Any help would be great!!!
Thanks,
SenorLoco
--Post results of ' fdisk -l ' and ' mount ' when you have the USB drive mounted. (You are doing the mount cmd as root, right?)
Originally Posted by SenorLoco
The problem is that the DiskOnKey get's mounted read-only. It happens also to my USB Stick
using Mandrake. I resolved the issue applying a patch that simple mounts the stick r/w, but
patching the running Koppix kernel is a bit difficult.
I heard that there is a firmware upgrade for the DiskOnKey out there that solves this problem,
but I was not able to find it. If you do, let me know.
Georg
alright I've been toying around with things alittle (since Im no linux expert) but I've found that I can write to the diskonkey through a root shell...so it can't be a problem with firmware....just something not setup right...any thoughts?
Do a cat /etc/fstab with your diskonkey mounted.
you should see entries like this (for my floppy):
device------mount-----type------options---------------------dump--pass
...
/dev/fd0---/floppy-----vfat-----defaults,user,exec,rw------0------0
...
The important part is the options, if you have nouser in the options, unmount your device, edit your /etc/fstab file and change nouser to user, if user isn't in the options put it in, then save your changes and the remount your device.
Now see if it works.
The other thing may be permissions on the actual device used by your diskonkey, if your fstab looks OK, then do an ls-al /dev/your-device you should see something like:
brwxrwxrwx   1   root   root   11 Feb 13 15:22   /dev/your-device
Ignore the first letter, make sure the permissions are at least: ?rw-rw-rw- so that all users and groups can read or write to that device.
HTH
rock
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