I remotely connect to a fedora 3 box. I created a few files and did a few updates, and then rebooted the server. after the server came back up I could no longer edit any of the files I had created. I no receive a readonly error: E212: can't open file for writing. Many of the programs, such as yum, no give me similiar errors when I try to run them. The hard disk appears to be completely readonly now. I am unable to create or edit any files as root or any other user, even when permissions have been changed to 777. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here and how I might best fix it?

Josiah

off the top of my head: check your umask, check that the partition isn't mounted as read-only.

hth --Jonas

i checked the umask, it appears to be set to 0022. isnt that equivelant to 0777, meaning that the hard disk is rwx for the root user?

josiah

GIYF

That is where all of this started.....thanks for your input

josiah