report cards read-only on floppy

[Marc Lijour]

On Monday 27 November 2006 21:07, Chris Aitken wrote:
> 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
>
> <snip>

Can't you remount it with rw option?
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