Not able to create folder in a USB disk

[William Lovaton]

Hi,

I mounted a USB disk and I can browse it and work with it as expected
but when I am trying to create a folder from nautilus it is not posible,
it says something like "Error <<Invalud parameteres>> creating the new
folder" or something like that (I use a spanish transaltion).

I can create the folder in a terminal, even I can create it with the
file chooser but not with nautilus, not even accessing it directly
through /media/usbdisk.

Any ideas about this bug??

-William

[Jesse Hannah]

I personally prefer KDE and Konqueror, and it works fine. I don't see
why there should be any problems with creating a folder in another
program. Try checking bugzilla, and if all else fails, just
(redownload--there's a chance that there's a newer version that'll
have a fix for that--and) reinstall Nautilus.

[William Lovaton]

In fact... this seems to be happening in vfat filesystem.  It happening
on my WinXP partition too.  I can't create folders in it, this is
unbelievable.

-William

El lun, 29-11-2004 a las 21:19 -0500, William Lovaton escribió:
> Hi,
>
> I mounted a USB disk and I can browse it and work with it as expected
> but when I am trying to create a folder from nautilus it is not posible,
> it says something like "Error <<Invalud parameteres>> creating the new
> folder" or something like that (I use a spanish transaltion).
>
> I can create the folder in a terminal, even I can create it with the
> file chooser but not with nautilus, not even accessing it directly
> through /media/usbdisk.
>
> Any ideas about this bug??
>
> -William

[Olaf Reitmaier]

Look at /etc/fstab, and you must see the option "rw" in the lines
refering to your devices (flash or other partition), like this:

/dev/sda                /mnt/flash              auto    noauto,user,owner,rw 0 0
/dev/sda1               /mnt/flash1            auto    noauto,user,owner,rw 0 0

If your Windows XP partition is ntfs, you must recompile the kernel to
support write  on ntfs partition (CAREFUL IS EXPERIMENTAL), if not is
an ntfs, try putting the rw option.

[William Lovaton]

Olaf,  this doesn't seem to do the trick, I have this for my WinXP
(vfat) partition in fstab:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat defaults,noauto,user        0 0

With this I can't create folders in the vfat partition in nautilus,
however I _can_ do it in the terminal and as soon as I do it, thanks to
gamin, I can see the folder show up in nautilus.  And as soon as I rmdir
it the folder in nautilus disappears just as expected.  So the bug seems
to be in nautilus only.

The message I get is something like:
"Error <<Invalud parameteres>> creating the new folder"

As a side note, I have another partition with ext3 configured with the
sames options like the vfat partition and I can create folder there with
nautilus flawlessly.

What can I do?

-William

El vie, 03-12-2004 a las 08:11 -0500, Olaf Reitmaier escribió:
> Look at /etc/fstab, and you must see the option "rw" in the lines
> refering to your devices (flash or other partition), like this:
>
> /dev/sda                /mnt/flash              auto    noauto,user,owner,rw 0 0
> /dev/sda1               /mnt/flash1            auto    noauto,user,owner,rw 0 0
>
> If your Windows XP partition is ntfs, you must recompile the kernel to
> support write  on ntfs partition (CAREFUL IS EXPERIMENTAL), if not is
> an ntfs, try putting the rw option.
> --
>
> Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
>   Email: 
>   Linux User #: 264681