This may be a dumb question, and a bit of a long shot, but have you tried rebooting? I know that's not often necessary in Linux but it's possible that some process somewhere has not picked up the changed disk status and permissions.
The only other thing I can think of is whether you have some kind of mandatory access control (e.g. apparmour) in effect? On 14/10/2017 11:09, Mark Rogers via Peterboro wrote: > > On 14 October 2017 at 16:22, Chris Sandles <summersh...@tiscali.co.uk > <mailto:summersh...@tiscali.co.uk>> wrote: > > Assuming you've cleared some space in your hard drive now. > Apologies if you've already tried this, but worth checking > permissions on the command line for /usr/bin using ls -l > > Permissions show as "drwxr-xr-x" which is as I'd expect. > > There is now over 10GB disk free. > > # sudo mkdir /usr/bin/test123 > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/bin/test123’: Permission denied > # sudo mkdir /usr/sbin/test123 > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/sbin/test123’: Permission denied > # sudo mkdir /usr/lib/test123 > (succeeds) > > All are on the same partition (there is only one partition). All have > the same permissions (at least as far as ls shows me, and acls are not > installed/enabled). > > -- > Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 > Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER > >
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