Maura Monville wrote:
I have dumped huge directories (uncompressed) from SuSE 10.3 onto my external hard drive (SEAGATE which is only 25% full after such operation). I have tar-red the huge files. But when I try to gzip the tar-archive the system refuses to do so because such an archive is considered a "read-only file system".
Uh, a _file_ can be read-only, but it would take a few more steps to make it a read-only _file-system_. It sounds like your external drive has somehow become read-only. I can't think of how - you did manage to write the tar-file to it.
Even as root (#su -) I cannot remove the archive.
You could try remounting your external drive as rw - mount -o rw,remount <yourdrive> <yourmountpoint> -- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.4°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org