Help! USB Drive behaving funny...

[GeekyNeuron]

:( I have a 256MB Kingston drive which was working just fine till yesterday evening. Today the following occurred:

- it is being mounted as 'Read-only' of my other FC6 machine
- putting it back onto my FC5 machine, it says space on disk = 0 whereas all I have on it is a couple of text documents.
- The archive I wanted to transfer between the two machines was not being fully read on the FC6 machine and the copy was aborted halfway through.

I have a feeling it has something to do with the SELinux ****e on the FC6 machine but I can't figure out how to reverse teh process.

Need help PRONTO...so will be grateful for a prompt reply..

[GeekyNeuron]

Oh.. and BTW....another problem, maybe unrelated, is that when I make a .tar.bz2 archive from a folder called 'wine-0.9.2', it makes the archive as 'fr.xxxx.0.wine-0.9.2.tar' wher xxxx is some 4-digit number which is incremented every time I create teh archive

[parish]

:<...snip>I have a feeling it has something to do with the SELinux ****e on the FC6 machine but I can't figure out how to reverse teh process.<...snip>
Any time you think that selinux is involved you can test this by either setting it to permissive mode with setenforce 0 or completely disable it at boottime by appending selinux=0 to your boot line in /etc/grub/grub.conf, for example

title Fedora Core 6 (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/sdb2 noapic rhgb quiet selinux=0
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img

Daniel