Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > Someone with the reply address of > replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Asked how the partition was mounted -- I cant reply directly to them for > some reason, so here's my answer > > The bin directory is on the / partition, so as far as I know, it should > be read write, but I don't know how to confirm its mount status for sure $ mount /dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/hda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) $ Mike [Timothy A. Holmes] Here is the output of the mount command [root@srvweb-02 bin]# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) 192.168.0.5:/home on /home type nfs (rw,nosuid,hard,addr=192.168.0.5) [root@srvweb-02 bin]#