[haiku] Re: Mounting USB and ext3

  • From: Paul Davey <plmdvy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:04:57 +1300

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2010-11-23 at 23:25:24 [+0100], Sean Healy <jalopeura@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Haiku will not let me mount my (FAT32) USB stick or my (ext3) Ubuntu
>> partition read/write. It doesn't even offer me the option, like it does
>> for my FAT32 partition.
>
> Either the USB stick is for some reason only recognized as a read-only
> media or the ext file system implementation decides that it's not a good
> idea to provide write access. You could easily rule out the former by
> dd'ing the stick (respectively the partition on it, if that's how it is
> formatted) to an image file and try to mount that.
>
> At any rate please open a Trac ticket.
>
> CU, Ingo
um AFAIK it ext3 has no write capability yet as its not ready.
So it wont offer you the option to modify a partition that the driver
is incapable of modifying...

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