From: Eric Lammerts <eric@lammerts.org>
To: "R. J. Wysocki" <rjwysocki@sisk.pl>
Cc: "Steven E. Woolard" <tuxq@earthlink.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: VFAT/MSDOS
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:34:25 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408111333001.32568@vivaldi.madbase.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408100027.55463.rjwysocki@sisk.pl>
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday 09 of August 2004 23:40, Steven E. Woolard wrote:
> > VER: 2.6.8-rc3
> > Using a FAT16 file system mounted via /dev/sda1
> > it cannot be written to. When attempt is made it gives the error of being a
> > read-only file system.
>
> It's known. It appears that you have to mount the fs with _both_ the
> "iocharset" _and_ "codepage" options explicitly specified to be able to write
> to it. Alternatively, you can remount it with "rw" explicitly specified (as
> root).
>
> I hope that someone's working on a fix. ;-)
That change was reversed in 2.6.8-rc4:
> <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
> Revert FAT NLS changes.
>
> It's causing massive user confusion, and breaks installers by
> mounting the filesystem read-only.
Hooray for Linus!
Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-11 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-09 21:40 Steven E. Woolard
2004-08-09 22:27 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-08-11 17:34 ` Eric Lammerts [this message]
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