On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 18:33 +0100, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a system where a diskless FreeBSD 6.3 i386 machine boots with pxeboot > from a FreeBSD 6.3 amd64 machine. I have lines in /etc/fstab for the diskless > machine like: > > # Device MountPoint FsType Options Dump Pass > 172.16.0.1:/usr /usr nfs rw 0 0 > 172.16.0.1:/mnt/d2/rootfs/root /root nfs rw 0 0 > > The machine boots from network nicely, then I can login as root and invoke > these commands: > > mount -u -o rw / > mount -u -o rw /usr > mount -u -o rw /root > > There is no error message on the console, nor in the system log. However, > this happens afterwards: > > diskless101#mkdir /aaa > mkdir aaa: Read-only file system > > Question: if the remount did not succeed, why didn't it throw an error? If > succeeded, why can't I write on the filesystem? > > Thanks, > > Laszlo >
The answer to the second portion is that you're mounted as a read only file system, so there's no write access. There's an nfs permissions file you may need to edit, /etc/exports/, which controls whether NFS shares the file system as read only, read write, whether root can have root on the file system etc. James _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"