Error for copying files to external drives

Posts: 3 · mkirkove 11 Dec 2022, 08:38

Dear all.
I have the following problems form months.
I make a backup of some files to an external drive in Linux Mint.
When the scan is finished, it is impossible to apply the synchronization: no file is copied copy and I have error messages of the type
'Error Cannot write file ... EROFS: Read-only file system [open]'

To solve this problem, I eject the external drive, I reconnect it, then without re-scanning, I do the synchronization.
Has anyone had the same problem?

Posts: 1038 · therube 12 Dec 2022, 18:52

(One post mentioned doing a fsck on the drive, but I'm not familiar so I'd wait till other chime in.)

Posts: 4056 · xCSxXenon 12 Dec 2022, 19:07

Is your distro up to date? This sounds more like Linux doing something funky than anything else

Posts: 3 · mkirkove 13 Dec 2022, 16:05

I don't have the last version of Linux (Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon), but my system is uptodate.

Posts: 3 · mkirkove 15 Dec 2022, 16:52

The problem is that the drive is read-only after scan and there is no option in 'Freefilesync' to change the permission of the drive after the scan. I do not have the same problem in Mac OSx.

Posts: 4056 · xCSxXenon 15 Dec 2022, 17:08

FFS isn't the cause of it. FFS doesn't have that ability. It may be triggering something else though