Morning Richard,<br>Have you tried fsck <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck</a><br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Nathan.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:59 PM, <a href="mailto:rich-ayres@tiscali.co.uk">rich-ayres@tiscali.co.uk</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rich-ayres@tiscali.co.uk">rich-ayres@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Its Me Again<br>
( groans all round). I have somehow managed to convert two 1Gig<br>
memory sticks into Read Only Filing system devices. Both appear on the<br>
desktop and can be opened one appears to be empty while the other<br>
contains lots of files which appear to contain garbage. I have mounted<br>
both from the command line as su and tried chmod 0666 /media/disk to<br>
try to make it read/write and also tried rm /media/* to try to clear<br>
it. mount with -o remount,rw also failed. Also reformatting failed as<br>
device is read only. Perhaps someone could tell me what I did wrong I<br>
did use cfdisk on one to put ext2 fs on it. but the problem seemed to<br>
happen after I moved some files into folders and deleted the rest, but<br>
was not apparent until the nxt time I used the stick. If I've trashed<br>
them permanently it is nota great loss but it would be nice to know why<br>
it happened.<br>
regards R.<br>
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