[Discuss] memory stick issue

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

dan moylan wrote: 
> 
> dan moylan once wrote:
> > running fc36 on lenevo thinkpad T460
> moylan BCKUP1n[1089] touch foo
> touch: cannot touch 'foo': Read-only file system
> moylan BCKUP1n[1090] ls -l
> total 20K
> drwxr-xr-x. 3 moylan moylan 4.0K 220910:1532 backintime/
> drwx------. 2 root   root    16K 220910:1525 lost+found/
> moylan BCKUP1n[1091] ls -l ../
> total 4.0K
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 moylan moylan    8 220911:1756 BCKUP1 -> BCKUP1n//
> drwxr-xr-x. 4 moylan moylan 4.0K 220910:1532 BCKUP1n/
> moylan BCKUP1n[1092] ls -l ../../
> total 0
> drwxr-x---+ 3 moylan moylan 80 220911:1756 moylan/
> 
> backintime started out ok, but then got hung up.

Read dmesg/syslog reports. Odds are good the memory stick has
had many errors and been switched to read-only.

Buy a new one.

-dsr-