Fossapup main partition is suddenly read-only.

[Governor]

Main partition is suddenly read-only.
How can this be fixed? I tried to reset permissions in the GUI, but no luck.
Thanks.

[rockedge]

what format is this partition? One of these FAT32, NTFS ,ext2, ext3, ext4 or something different? Was it read-write at some point?

[mikewalsh]

@Governor :-

To add to what @rockedge has said above, I'm going to hazard a guess; are you running from a flash drive..? I've heard of flash drives turning read-only on many occasions over the years, but I've never heard of this happening with a hard drive or SSD.

Pounds to peanuts you're running the first option.....

Mike.

[Marv]

@Governor, It's been a looong time, but I have seen this with a FAT32 boot partition on an HDD or SSD, can't remember which. What got me out of the bind was first to reboot passing pfix=ram as a kernel parameter or boot from another device altogether. At any rate, the affected partition must not be mounted, /dev/sda1 in my case. Then run fsck.fat -a or e2fsck -a (whichever is appropriate) on that partition and reboot using it.

Edited once, Marv

[bigpup]

You need to provide some information.

What specific Puppy version????

How is it installed????

What type drive?
HD, SSD, USB flash, what?

The main partition with only Puppy Linux on it or other OS's, like maybe Windows?

What format is the partition?

What is the partition layout on the drive?

Only one partition?

[Governor]

I tried [Ctrl+Alt+Backspace] and that had no effect on the problem. I then tried to unmount the drive, but there was the warning box saying a process was preventing it. Odd, because I had no apps running, I "killed" the mystery process, and now the drive seems normal once again. So now I wonder if I have some sort of malware.

My "main drive" is #3; my apps and downloads are located here. The partitions:

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There is no other OS on any drives. Puppy is running in RAM only mode (because I can only boot from a CD).

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-Version-
Kernel		: Linux 5.4.53 (x86_64)
Version		: #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 26 12:11:02 BST 2020
C Library		: GNU C Library / (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.31-0ubuntu9) 2.31
Distribution		: Puppy Linux
-Current Session-
Computer Name		: puppypc14894
User Name		: root (root)
Language		: en_GB.UTF-8 (en_GB.UTF-8)
Home Directory		: /root
-Misc-
Uptime		: 9 days 12 hours 20 minutes
Load Average		: 1.40, 1.15, 0.95
Available entropy in /dev/random		: 3912 bits (healthy)

You need to provide some information.

What specific Puppy version????

How is it installed????

What type drive?
HD, SSD, USB flash, what?

The main partition with only Puppy Linux on it or other OS's, like maybe Windows?

What format is the partition?

What is the partition layout on the drive?

Only one partition?