USB Drive Read-only

Krakatoa

I am running the latest Retropie with my game roms on an external USB. Earlier I was playing a game and it locked up, after rebooting the external USB (fat32) is now read only. How can I set I back to read/write?

Krakatoa

@Krakatoa I should mention I’m able to read the contents of the disk fine.

mitu

How are you checking that it's read-only ? Maybe is at full capacity - only - and you can't write to it anymore.
Can you write to it from another system (PC) ?

Krakatoa

It has space

pi@retropie:~ $ df
Filesystem      1K-blocks      Used  Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        30456572   5602660   23575712  20% /
devtmpfs          1867780         0    1867780   0% /dev
tmpfs             1999876         0    1999876   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs             1999876      9916    1989960   1% /run
tmpfs                5120         4       5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs             1999876         0    1999876   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1     261868     53984     207884  21% /boot
tmpfs              399972         0     399972   0% /run/user/1000
**/dev/sda2      1953020256 159505152 1793515104   9% /media/usb0
pi@retropie:~ $**

I'm going to try later plugging it into my PC to see if I can read/write to it.

Krakatoa

@Krakatoa I figured out the issue. One of the files got corrupted when it crashed. Running chkdsk in windows fixed the issue and i can now read/write.

Also, I decided to switch from FAT32 to NTFS to hopefully avoid this situation going forward. Maybe its placebo, but it somehow seems faster now.....