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ceridwen · 03-26-2020, 04:48 PM

I have a Kobo Aura H2O with a file system that always shows up with the dirty bit set, so when I plug into a Linux computer, it's mounted as read-only, which makes it impossible to add books. I've run fsck on the file system and didn't find any errors, so I'm unconvinced there's anything actually wrong with it. I can manually unset the dirty bit and remount the file system read-write and successfully add books, but the moment I unplug it and plug it back in, the file system is set as dirty again and I have to go through the whole remount procedure to make it usable. I'm assuming the Kobo software is responsible for setting the dirty bit. Is there any to force it to stop doing that short of a factory reset?

This problem seems to have started when my ereader ran out of charge while I was temporarily unable to use it.

03-26-2020, 04:48 PM	#1
ceridwen Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2017 Device: Kobo Aura H2O	Can I stop a Kobo H2O from marking the file system as dirty short of a factory reset? I have a Kobo Aura H2O with a file system that always shows up with the dirty bit set, so when I plug into a Linux computer, it's mounted as read-only, which makes it impossible to add books. I've run fsck on the file system and didn't find any errors, so I'm unconvinced there's anything actually wrong with it. I can manually unset the dirty bit and remount the file system read-write and successfully add books, but the moment I unplug it and plug it back in, the file system is set as dirty again and I have to go through the whole remount procedure to make it usable. I'm assuming the Kobo software is responsible for setting the dirty bit. Is there any to force it to stop doing that short of a factory reset? This problem seems to have started when my ereader ran out of charge while I was temporarily unable to use it.