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matteo
Asked: 2012-03-30 09:22:05 +0800 CST

pen drive unmounts and remounts as readonly

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When I plug in my USB pen drive, it is automatically mounted as read/write, as expected.

However, after a random time it suddenly gets unmounted and remounted as read-only.

A part from waiting for this annoying bug to be fixed, is there a workaround to prevent this from happening?

mount usb usb-drive unmount read-only

2 Answers

  1. open terminal and type dmesg & insert your pen drive and check the Log of it .dmesg contains the system log .

    for more info , look at here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB#Device_become_suddenly_read_only

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  2. To expand on raja.genupula's answer, this could mean you need to do a filesystem check on the drive.

    Try this, open up Terminal, type dmesg, then insert your pen drive and wait for it to become read-only. dmesg shows you system log messages, and if you see any like this after it becomes read-only:

    [17183798.908000] FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sda1)
[17183798.908000]     fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0)
[17183798.908000]     File system has been set read-only

    Then it likely indicates that you need to do a filesystem check. To check the filesystem, use "Disk Utility" (under System, Administration), find your device, unmount it, check the file system, then mount it again.

    Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB#Device_become_suddenly_read_only

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