hal and usb problem
Gerhard Magnus
magnus at agora.rdrop.com
Wed May 24 15:45:56 UTC 2006
I've recently added a portable usb hard drive to my FC4 system. It
seems FC4 uses a program called HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) that
automatically resets and updates the fstab with mount information about
peripherals -- sort of like plug and play. I ran into all sorts of
conflicts by trying to add mount information for this usb drive to fstab
manually.
So anyway, I now have the drive plugged in and nothing added to the
fstab file. HAL adds this line to fstab
/dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk vfat
pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,utf8,managed 0 0
and mounts the device. I get an icon for it on my KDE desktop. But now
when I try to remove a file from this usb drive (as a regular user or as
superuser) I get the message:
rm: cannot remove `file': Read-only file system
Is there any way to get HAL to do my bidding? Or do I need to take him
"offline"?
Thanks for any help or suggestions!
Jerry
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