why is RW-mounted SD card treated as mounted RO?

[Kent Borg]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> $ mount
> ... snip ...
> /dev/sdb1 on /media/6458-0D98 type vfat
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)
> $
>
>   that normally suggests that the card is mounted read/write, but if i
> "cd" onto the card and attempt to make any changes, i get:
>
> $ touch fred
> touch: cannot touch `fred': Read-only file system

Last time I saw something like that it was because I was trying to mount
a Mac-formated Ipod and the journal was not supported by Linux.

Are there any interesting data in /var/log/messages? (The Ipod did put
out an error that I could Google...)


-kb