mount_msdosfs gives read-only error

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Thu Sep 1 07:06:10 PDT 2005


"Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org> writes:

> I'm running 6.0-BETA3 and this is happening on all my floppies.
> 
> # fdformat /dev/fd0
> fdformat: open(/dev/fd0): Read-only file system

I would interpret that as /dev being the read-only file system.
Something funny with devfs?

> 
> # ls -l /dev/fd0
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator   14, 103 Aug 31 13:14 /dev/fd0
> 
> (It was chmod 660 first and I changed it to 666 without benefit.)

Well, devfs is accepting the writes, then.
Sorry, I haven't tried 6.0 yet...


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