On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 21:43 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > > Interestingly I was trying to set this up from an existing F9 system with > > SElinux enabled, and following the guidance at the page you quote I did: > > [root@physics30 f10]# mount -o loop > > /home/mike/isos/f10/Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/tmp -t iso9660 > > then > > [root@physics30 f10]# cp -a /mnt/tmp/images . > > cp: cannot create directory `./images': Permission denied > > > > This is the same whether root or user. However cp -r does get copies of the > > files! > > Don't use "cp -a" to copy read-only filesystems. "cp" will create the > destination directories with the same read-only permissions, and will be > unable to write files into them. This is incorrect. Mounting a filesystem read-only has nothing to do with the mode bits on the individual files/directories. (In fact I always use rsync for this kind of thing, but whatever). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
