read-only?!?

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Fri Dec 19 11:14:57 CET 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| Hello there,
|
| i don't know, what's wrong, but i had just in the beginning some
| failures like
|
| tar: cannot create directory 'device/bus': Read-only file system
|
| this is created for every folder; input, bus etc.. so it's normal that
| the system couldn't start. but why it is a read only file system? i
| maked from my other system to the memorycard a mkfs.ext3 . ext3 isn't
| read only i think?

If this is on a host with uSD -> full size SD adapter, these adapters
have a little slider that can be used to disable writes to the SD Card,
they are easy to knock.

Also if your filesystem is corrupted it can decide to fail gracefully by
becoming read-only.

But I have managed to knock that little slider so many times I used some
pliers to pinch the plastic so it can no longer move.

- -Andy
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