Cannot write to SD card

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Jul 27 06:56:06 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 15:06 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> The read-write switch on  the side of the card is set to write, and
> I've never had trouble with it before. So I figured that I'll be smart
> and man mount, in where I discovered the -w flag, but I get this
> error:
> [root at localhost ~]# mount -w /media/disk
> mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /media/disk busy
> mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is already mounted on /media/disk
> 
> So I tried unmounting it, but the device seems to be busy:
> [root at localhost ~]# umount /media/disk
> umount: /media/disk: device is busy
> umount: /media/disk: device is busy 

Just to state the obvious:  Did you try to mount it (as writeable) while
it was already mounted (as read only)?

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