report cards read-only on floppy

[Chris Aitken]

Chris Aitken wrote:

> Chris Aitken wrote:
>
>> I'm to write report cards in Open Office. I use a floppy so I can go 
>> from school PC to my studio PC to my daughter's PC to my wife's PC. 
>> And yes, I do backups here and there but I will lose some informaitn 
>> if I don't solve this permissions thing. I thought that chmod 777 -R 
>> /mnt/floppy/* usually fixes any problems that arise but not this 
>> time. Now I can't even get into the files (other than as read-only) 
>> on my own PC.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
>
> I'm constantly being reminded everything on /mnt/floppy is a read-only 
> file system (suddenly of course). /etc/fstab doesn't agree:
>
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    
> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>
> Chris

I can't even change ownership as the super user:

[root at p733 chris]# chown chris /mnt/floppy/*
chown: changing ownership of `/mnt/floppy/news.0607.1.doc': Read-only 
file system
chown: changing ownership of `/mnt/floppy/rpt.0607.jk.aaliyah.1.doc': 
Read-only file system
chown: changing ownership of `/mnt/floppy/rpt.0607.jk.amber.1.doc': 
Read-only file system

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