On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 16:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was trying to write file to a subdirectory today and got the > error that it was a read only file system.
A filesystem can be set to read-only at mount time, which over rides any filesystem write permissions. To see if this is the case (and it sounds like it) issue the mount command. # mount /dev/hda2 on /home type ext3 (ro) The "ro", rather than a "rw" shows that the whole /home tree will not be writeable. You can remount the filesystem without taking it offline: # mount -o remount,rw /home Of course, you'll want to figure out why the filesystem was mounted read only in the first place. Check your /etc/fstab. Could also be that there were problems detected at mount time, the system got scared and mounted it read-only just to be safe. Corey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
