External drive is being mounted as read-only

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/01/14 05:32, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> Fedora 20 KDE Thinkpad T420i laptop has started mounting Transcend StoreJet 
> 25M3 as read-only. I tried remounting with rw but it is still mounted as ro.
>
> The system is fully updated. I have recently scrub-ed the external drive to 
> prepare for backup.
>
> [donnie at fedora ~]$ mount | grep /dev/sdb1
> /dev/sdb1 on /run/media/donnie/storejet25m3 type ext4 
> (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2)
>
> [donnie at fedora ~]$ ls -l /run/media/donnie/storejet25m3
> total 16
> drwx------. 2 root root 16384 Aug 31 12:55 lost+found

What do you mean by "scrubbed"?

Have you tried un-mounting and running fsck on the partition?

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