On 5/31/06, William Steibel <bsteibel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > No Ed, > I tried sudo first then swithed to root on Knoppix. In fc5 I logged in as > root. Still read only file systems As others have said, the file system is mounted read-only. >From the comline you can "remount" the read-only file as read-write. No need to unmount and mount again. For example, /mnt/disk is currently mounted ro on my system: # touch /mnt/disk/foo touch: cannot touch `/mnt/disk/foo': Read-only file system # mount -o remount,rw /mnt/disk # touch /mnt/disk/foo # ls -l /mnt/disk/foo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 31 14:55 /mnt/disk/foo # mount -o remount,ro /mnt/disk # touch /mnt/disk/foo touch: cannot touch `/mnt/disk/foo': Read-only file system Dean
