PW4 kindle mounting read-only on linux mint system

[dhdurgee]

I am encountering a problem today that my pw4 is mounting read-only on my linux mint system. I have tried restarting the PW4, but that makes no difference. the mount command shows:

dhdurgee@z560:~/Downloads$ mount | grep /media/dhdurgee/Kindle
/dev/sdc on /media/dhdurgee/Kindle type vfat (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
dhdurgee@z560:~/Downloads$

Needless to say this is causing a problem using Calibre to add books. How do I fix this?

I do have usbnet installed and can ssh to the pw4 if more information is available from there or if the fix can be done there.

Dave

[j.p.s]

The EMMC on your PW4 might be worn out.

You can try enabling USBnet, ssh to the kindle, and try touch on a new or existing file somewhere in /mnt/us

Also try mounting the root filesystem "/" rw and creating a new file in /etc/or somewhere.

[dhdurgee]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

The EMMC on your PW4 might be worn out.

You can try enabling USBnet, ssh to the kindle, and try touch on a new or existing file somewhere in /mnt/us

Also try mounting the root filesystem "/" rw and creating a new file in /etc/or somewhere.

I worked around this with a sftp mount of the kindle to which I was then able to copy the books using fcl.

I have not tried to use Calibre again with it plugged into the USB. Obviously I will do so the next time I want to copy a book over.

If it dosn't work at that time I guess I will check and see if there is a way for Calibre to use sftp to do its work.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Dave