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.
 What follows is what I did prior to the restart.  Why do you think it
needed the microsoft fix?

I think I figured it out; the thumb drive is mounted twice.

nope... that wasn't the problem:

bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/mnt/backup$ mkdir bmike1
mkdir: cannot create directory `bmike1': Read-only file system

then Iried it with sudo... same result.

bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/mnt/backup$ mount | grep backup
/dev/sdb on /mnt/backup type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime)

bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/mnt/backup$ mount|grep back
/dev/sdb on /mnt/backup type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime)
bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/mnt/backup$ ls -l
ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
total 0


:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net>wrote:

> From: Michael Havens
> > Is my USB drive dead?
> > bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~/Desktop$ ./Backup\ bmike1
> > rsync: mkdir "/mnt/backup/bmike1" failed: Read-only file system (30)
> > bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~/Desktop$ dmesg | tail -n 30
> > [74384.693378] type=1701 audit(1373570392.790:842): auid=4294967295
> > uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7116 comm="chromium-browse"
> > reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=33 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000
> [snip a lot of very similar lines]
>
> Whatever this is, it's completely useless.  It *might* be better to do ""mount
> | grep backup" and look at that for something that's vaguely
> disk-related.  In the long term, it'd probably be a good idea to find out
> what's dumping this to the kernel log buffer and tell it to stop doing
> that.
>
> However, the timestamps on the first and last messages differ by 3084
> seconds.
>  Provided you tried to do something to /mnt/backup , then ran dmesg fairly
> soon after that (< 3084 seconds), then there are no messages in the kernel
> log
> buffer about disk problems.  This is a good sign (maybe).
>
> What's the output from "mount | grep backup"?  It should say something
> like:
>
> /dev/sdd on /mnt/backup type ext3 (rw)
>
> ...if it says (ro), then for some reason, your distro is doing something
> dumb.
>  In that case, edit your fstab and change "noauto,users" to
> "noauto,users,rw".
>  Then umount and remount the disk, and it should work better.  You still
> may
> have to mkdir /mnt/backup/bmike1 and chown that dir to bmike1, but at least
> you'd be able to do this if the filesystem's mounted rw.
>
> --
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