<div>Well.... I restarted the machine and then tried again. I was sble to create /bmike1 in /mnt/backup. then chown. and rsync is in process now.</div><div> What follows is what I did prior to the restart. Why do you think it needed the microsoft fix?</div>
<div><br></div>I think I figured it out; the thumb drive is mounted twice.<div><div><div><br></div><div>nope... that wasn't the problem:</div></div><div><br></div><div>bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/mnt/backup$ mkdir bmike1</div>
<div>mkdir: cannot create directory `bmike1': Read-only file system</div>
<div><br></div><div>then Iried it with sudo... same result.</div><div><br></div><div>bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/mnt/backup$ mount | grep backup</div><div>/dev/sdb on /mnt/backup type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime)</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/mnt/backup$ mount|grep back</div><div>/dev/sdb on /mnt/backup type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime)</div><div>bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/mnt/backup$ ls -l</div><div>ls: reading directory .: Input/output error</div>
<div>total 0</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Matt Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danceswithcrows@usa.net" target="_blank">danceswithcrows@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
From: Michael Havens<br>
<div>> Is my USB drive dead?<br>
> bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~/Desktop$ ./Backup\ bmike1<br>
</div><div>> rsync: mkdir "/mnt/backup/bmike1" failed: Read-only file system (30)<br>
</div><div>> bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~/Desktop$ dmesg | tail -n 30<br>
> [74384.693378] type=1701 audit(1373570392.790:842): auid=4294967295<br>
> uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7116 comm="chromium-browse"<br>
> reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=33 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000<br>
</div>[snip a lot of very similar lines]<br>
<br>
Whatever this is, it's completely useless. It *might* be better to do "<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">"mount | grep backup</span>" and look at that for something that's vaguely<br>
disk-related. In the long term, it'd probably be a good idea to find out<br>
what's dumping this to the kernel log buffer and tell it to stop doing that.<br>
<br>
However, the timestamps on the first and last messages differ by 3084 seconds.<br>
Provided you tried to do something to /mnt/backup , then ran dmesg fairly<br>
soon after that (< 3084 seconds), then there are no messages in the kernel log<br>
buffer about disk problems. This is a good sign (maybe).<br>
<br>
What's the output from "mount | grep backup"? It should say something like:<br>
<br>
/dev/sdd on /mnt/backup type ext3 (rw)<br>
<br>
...if it says (ro), then for some reason, your distro is doing something dumb.<br>
In that case, edit your fstab and change "noauto,users" to "noauto,users,rw".<br>
Then umount and remount the disk, and it should work better. You still may<br>
have to mkdir /mnt/backup/bmike1 and chown that dir to bmike1, but at least<br>
you'd be able to do this if the filesystem's mounted rw.<br>
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