[ltp] My hard drive is read-only!!

[Alexander Gran]

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Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2003 21:57 schrieb Joel Ebel:

> Well, NTFS, I never mount writeable anyway.  My fat32 and ext3 partition
> I can mount either way.  If I mount it writeable and write a file to it,
> after an unmount and remount it's gone.  It never really got written.  I
> can't mount my reiserfs partition at all since even a ro partition needs
> to be able to write something.  I don't really understand reiserfs, but
> apparently that's true.  fsck tests fine, badblocks comes up blank.  PC
> doctor and Hitachi Drive Fitness Tools test fine because none of those
> write to the drive.  I tried the drive in a different computer and it
> does the same thing, so it's definitely a problem with the drive.

Have you tried to write to a special device (/dev/hda?) directly, wg echo a=
nd=20
read it out again? (You'll destroy your filesystems, of course).

regards
Alex

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