discuss: root partition is read-only and can't change it
Subject:
Re: root partition is read-only and can't change it
From:
Russel Ingram ####@####.####
Date:
20 Aug 2002 17:32:05 -0000
Message-Id: <20020820094042.7a3fce9b.ringram@acpl.lib.wy.us>
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 13:08:10 -0400 "Guray Gursoy"
####@####.#### wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> While I was experimenting with the quotas I changed the following
> line in the /etc/fstab :
>
> LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 (BEFORE)
> LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,userquotas 1 1 (AFTER)
>
> Now, I cannot write anything to the /, nor I cannot change any of
> the files including /etc/fstab I am using RedHat 7.3. When I look at
> the file permissions I see that I have read and write permissions. I
> cannot delete a file or change the file permissions either.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Guray.
Looks as if you've turned on quotas on the root filesystem
and possible set root with a quota of zero somehow. As root
try running this:
mount -t ext3 -o remount,defaults LABEL=/ /
Then see if it doesn't let you edit your fstab.
P.S. This list is a discussion group for authors of HOWTOs for
the Linux Documentation Project, not a general linux help list.
Russ
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