I've recently added a portable usb hard drive to my FC4 system. It seems FC4 uses a program called HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) that automatically resets and updates the fstab with mount information about peripherals -- sort of like plug and play. I ran into all sorts of conflicts by trying to add mount information for this usb drive to fstab manually. So anyway, I now have the drive plugged in and nothing added to the fstab file. HAL adds this line to fstab /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,utf8,managed 0 0 and mounts the device. I get an icon for it on my KDE desktop. But now when I try to remove a file from this usb drive (as a regular user or as superuser) I get the message: rm: cannot remove `file': Read-only file system Is there any way to get HAL to do my bidding? Or do I need to take him "offline"? Thanks for any help or suggestions! Jerry
