On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What do you mean? > > If you do > > sudo touch /run/media/donnie/storejet/x > > what do you get? That works fine that will write file x with root:root I was checking dmesg. There are some interesting errors and remounting filesystem read-only [donnie@fedora ~]$ dmesg | grep sdc1 [ 3814.291553] sdc: sdc1 [ 3834.818254] EXT4-fs (sdc1): recovery complete [ 3834.868368] EXT4-fs (sdc1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 3834.868396] SELinux: initialized (dev sdc1, type ext4), uses xattr [ 3946.389358] Aborting journal on device sdc1-8. [ 3946.389380] JBD2: Error -5 detected when updating journal superblock for sdc1-8. [ 3946.411350] EXT4-fs error (device sdc1): ext4_put_super:792: Couldn't clean up the journal [ 3946.411355] EXT4-fs (sdc1): Remounting filesystem read-only [ 4358.549028] sdc: sdc1 [ 4363.302847] EXT4-fs (sdc1): recovery complete [ 4363.341497] EXT4-fs (sdc1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 4363.341513] SELinux: initialized (dev sdc1, type ext4), uses xattr [donnie@fedora ~]$ dmesg | grep sdc [ 3814.230640] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) [ 3814.232519] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [ 3814.232529] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00 [ 3814.236145] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 3814.291553] sdc: sdc1 [ 3814.295212] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk [ 3834.818254] EXT4-fs (sdc1): recovery complete [ 3834.868368] EXT4-fs (sdc1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 3834.868396] SELinux: initialized (dev sdc1, type ext4), uses xattr [ 3946.389358] Aborting journal on device sdc1-8. [ 3946.389380] JBD2: Error -5 detected when updating journal superblock for sdc1-8. [ 3946.392034] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Synchronizing SCSI cache [ 3946.392089] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] [ 3946.411350] EXT4-fs error (device sdc1): ext4_put_super:792: Couldn't clean up the journal [ 3946.411355] EXT4-fs (sdc1): Remounting filesystem read-only [ 4358.479465] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) [ 4358.480975] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [ 4358.480985] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00 [ 4358.483225] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 4358.549028] sdc: sdc1 [ 4358.553304] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk [ 4363.302847] EXT4-fs (sdc1): recovery complete [ 4363.341497] EXT4-fs (sdc1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 4363.341513] SELinux: initialized (dev sdc1, type ext4), uses xattr On your system when you mount an ext4 usb storage is it mounted as read-only? -- Regards, Sudhir Khanger. sudhirkhanger.com https://github.com/donniezazen -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org