Thread: N900 - Hardrive is in Read Only Mode
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2013-07-12 , 13:41
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Originally Posted by biketool View Post
pichlo, were you getting errors or clean in fsck?
Dunno, I didn't bother to check. Just reformatted the blighter.

For some reason bootmenu wont work so I am stuck with fsck'ing from a running N900. But again fsck comes out clean.
Have you tried Windows? The N900 fsck is not the best of breed, I'm afraid.

Originally Posted by biketool View Post
What is the downside on dumping the contents of MyDocs into a directory on my laptop, fdisk'ing /dev/mmcblk0p1, and then pouring the contents back in.
Depending on what program you use for the operation, the files' time stamps may get nuked. Otherwise no downside: just the opposite, it might improve performance a bit by fixing any fragmentation.

Only I would use the stock file manager to do the formatting rather than fsck. It should provide the same results but somehow feels more like the "approved" way.