exfat on SD card getting mounted read-only

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Tue Aug 26 02:40:51 UTC 2014


On 08/26/14 03:15, jd1008 wrote:
> My flash card slot in the laptop is (per lspci):
> 03:01.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21)
>
> I insert into it a SanDisk 16GB Extreme SD card. This card is not marked as a secure card.
> At least, it does not say so on the card.
>
> It gets automounted read only as:
>
> /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /run/media/jd/3D90-BEAB type fuseblk (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)
>
> # umount -f /dev/mmcblk0p1
>
> # /sbin/mount.exfat -o rw /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mmcblk0p1
> FUSE exfat 1.0.1
> WARN: `/dev/mmcblk0p1' is write-protected, mounting read-only.
>
> So, what is causing it to be mountable read-only, and not get mounted read/write? 

Did you format your card using the RPMfusion exfat-utils or did you do it on Windows?  Whichever way you did it, you can try the other way.  If that doesn't work, you may want to ask on the RPMFusion list and/or file a bugzilla there.

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