On Sunday 14 September 2003 19:16, mark bannister wrote:
Jerry Feldman wrote:
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On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:29:21 -0500
mark bannister <mark@injection-moldings.com> wrote:
Somehow I have made my root directory read only -- I think that is what I did. When I reboot I get all kinds of error messages saying root is readonly. What's the best way to fix this? Mark Bannister
S/B RWX by owner (root), r-x for group and others.
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OK, I'm new at this. What does it mean? when I do a dir list permissions look ok. I've been finding comments about mounting with read only. Could this be the problem?
I had a similar problem (a slew of error messages upon boot about root being read only) in the middle of some intermittent hardware IDE/hard disk problems I was having. If your permissions look ok in the directory listing, and you have exhausted other possibilities you could look into this. As I said, my problems were intermittent, and eventually degenerated enough for me to find the hardware fault, so I never did get to understand the 'root as read only' phase in the middle! Sorry I cannot be of more help. -- Ray