On 10/25/2015 11:12 AM, Barry Brimer wrote: > I 'just' noticed that at some point, my USB backup drive on my server >> is >> mounted as read-only and all of my background sync cron jobs have been >> failing. >> >> So I need to fix this without rebooting the server. >> How can I get this drive r/w? > Have you tried "mount -o remount,rw <mountpoint>"? # mount -o remount,rw /media/HD103SI/ mount: cannot remount block device /dev/sdc1 read-write, is write-protected > The unanswered question here is why did it go read only, and does this condition still exist? The burning question of the day...... Should I 'just' unplug it, power cycle it and reconnect it?