[maemo-developers] Memory card mmc changed status to Read only file system (30)

[From: maemo at bitblit.net]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Darius Jack wrote:

> OS2007HE worked fine, run shell scripts, applications.
> Recently run wget in recursive mode.
> Download to flash memory.
> Learned  how to recorsive download to media memory card (MMC).
> Copied downloaded html files from flash to memory card to make room on flash.
> 
> And finally tried to remove wget downloaded files from media memory card
> and found out any, every, each file to be asterisked and can not be deleted.
> 
> run mount from command line
> one entry for /media/mmc1
> 
> /dev/mcblk0.. on /media/mmc1 type vfat (rw, noauto, nodev, noexec, nosuid, utf8, uid=29999, shortname=mixed, dmask=000)
> 
> chmod -x /media/mmc1
> chmod: /media/mmc1: Read-only file system

Sometimes, a corrupt file-system will be forced into read-only mode. Take 
the card out and run some disk checking tool on a PC/Mac/Linux machine.



-- 
Aj.