Hi, ext Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote: >>>> I have a 770 with OS2007 Hacker's edition with a 1GB removable card. >>>> Everything worked fine until yesterday when I suddenly lost write-access >>>> to the card. So I can no longer do backups or write or remove files from >>>> the File Manager. I tried connecting it to my Linux machine using the >>>> USB cable, but the Linux machine also insists that the file system on >>>> the USB drive is read-only (so I could not delete files for example from >>>> linux terminal, even with super-user permission). >>>> >>>> Can anyone give me some advice so that I can re-acquire write access? >> the file system card can be corrupted and needs an fsck. > > Any idea how I can do that? When I chose "Memory card -> mmc2 -> > Format ..." from File Manager it tells me that the memory card is in > use. I tried booting up without the memory card and then inserted it > later to no effect. Metalayer-crawler media indexer is probably going through it. If waiting a while doesn't help, you can disable the crawler using /etc/init.d/ script (as root). - Eero _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users