[Discuss] memory stick issue

[dan moylan]

dan moylan once wrote:
> running fc36 on lenevo thinkpad T460
> moylan cmd[1051] sudo mke2fs -text4 -LBCKUP1n /dev/sdb
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> moylan cmd[105?] dmesg
   [600097.987503] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
   [600098.318616] JBD2: no valid journal superblock found
   [600098.318619] EXT4-fs (sdb): error loading journal

after poking about on the internet, i found:
  sudo mke2fs -t ext4 -LBCKUP1n -O ^has_journal /dev/sdb

that reestablished a valid journal superblock and the memory stick
finally mounted ok.

however ....

moylan BCKUP1n[1088] pwd
/run/media/moylan/BCKUP1n
moylan BCKUP1n[1089] touch foo
touch: cannot touch 'foo': Read-only file system
moylan BCKUP1n[1090] ls -l
total 20K
drwxr-xr-x. 3 moylan moylan 4.0K 220910:1532 backintime/
drwx------. 2 root   root    16K 220910:1525 lost+found/
moylan BCKUP1n[1091] ls -l ../
total 4.0K
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 moylan moylan    8 220911:1756 BCKUP1 -> BCKUP1n//
drwxr-xr-x. 4 moylan moylan 4.0K 220910:1532 BCKUP1n/
moylan BCKUP1n[1092] ls -l ../../
total 0
drwxr-x---+ 3 moylan moylan 80 220911:1756 moylan/

backintime started out ok, but then got hung up.

what the hell happened?

ole dan

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