On Sunday 03 March 2002 11:15, Steven Augart wrote:
Yes, that is weird.
Do you see the same behaviour when you attempt to do this from the command line?
Yes. I su root, and try rm filename, and it says the same thing.. readonly file system.
When you look at /proc/mounts, does the listing change at all from read-write mode to read-only?
No. everything looks normal.
I am guessing that konqueror is attempting to update some attribute that is not available on a fat32 filesystem (e.g., the permission bits or the owner or group) and is getting confused.
Are the other mount points also FAT32 mount points?
All 3 mount points on hdb are FAT32. I have been doing some thinking about the sequence of things when this is happening. It seems as if when I tell it to delete, it does, but the FAT is not updated until I umount the drive. As long as the FAT is not updating, the file that appears to be there is really not. Linux, stops any other atctions until the files match the FAT. Dunno... it's just a theory. Seems odd that it hapens for one partition and not the others. I moved everything off that partition last night. I'll try reformatting... maybe that will clear up any oddities. C.
Clayton Cornell wrote:
OK, this is wierd....
I decided that this afternoon would be a good time to update my system via YOU. I included KDE2.2.2 in the update. Now I am getting some odd behavior with one of my share drives.
Here is what is happening... I mount hdb5 (FAT32 formatted) and I try to delete a file. Using Konq, I select the file and right click, delete. The first file I can delete. I select another file and select delete, and a popup tells me I cannot delete because I am mounted to a readonly filesystem. Huh? It worked on the last file. So, I exit Konq, and unmount the drive. If I wait about 1 minute and re-mount the drive, the file that failed to delete is now gone.... I can delete 1 or 2 files and then the read only thing pops up again. Unmount, wait, remount and repeat.
Nothing else is goving problems... just that one mount point (hdb5). Other mount points on that same physical drive (hdb6 and hdb7) have no problems. They are formatted and configed exactly the same. fstab settingas are identical. Any ideas?
C.