I've a raspberry pi 2bplus
and I've installed the latest Raspbian strectch on it. I've connected External HardDrive to the pi.
I'm running into a really weird problem that doesn't make sense to me but that's probably because of my lack of knowledge related to Linux systems.
I've plex installed on the pi. Plex can detect & read the contents of the disk.
The problem is when the pi boots up, the external drive is read write filesystem and therefore I can create, delete and copy files on the disk however as soon as a software for example like Firefox or Megatools tries to write something on the external disk, it can't write to the disk & it complains that the file system is Read only file system.
The disk is in good health.
I've tried downloading stuff like sudo megadl "the url"
on the external harddrive but I still get the same error.
Why does my external drive suddenly change into read only file system when a software tries to write something on it? How can I fix this?
PS: After firefox/megatools fails with the error mentioned above, I can no longer write/delete contents off of the external disk
Specs:
Intenso 4TB harddrive. The disk for ext3 formatted.
raspberry pi 2plus
so, one that does not exist? or is that what they are calling the 2 with the CPU from the 3? – Jaromanda X Mar 19 at 13:08I can create, delete and copy files
- that's done using software. It sounds like a permissions issue, except that you say runningsudo somedowloader blah
also fails .... check the output ofdmesg
once the drive fails to be writable for any error messages regarding the drive – Jaromanda X Mar 19 at 13:10dmesg
that may help you determine the problem you are having with your hardware – Jaromanda X Mar 19 at 13:24findmnt /mnt/myusbdrive
(or what your name and mountpoint is) two times, one time direct after reboot and one time when it seems to be read only. – Ingo Mar 20 at 9:49