Re: PROBLEM: VFAT/MSDOS

[R. J. Wysocki]

On Monday 09 of August 2004 23:40, Steven E. Woolard wrote:
> VER: 2.6.8-rc3
> Using a FAT16 file system mounted via /dev/sda1
> it cannot be written to. When attempt is made it gives the error of being a
> read-only file system.

It's known.  It appears that you have to mount the fs with _both_ the 
"iocharset" _and_ "codepage" options explicitly specified to be able to write 
to it.  Alternatively, you can remount it with "rw" explicitly specified (as 
root).

I hope that someone's working on a fix. ;-)

Greets,
RJW

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