Check which partition / resides on?
 

How to check under which partion / was installed ?

@raghu: Run as regular user. Should work even on readonly root.

Hi,

I have a linux box with kernal 2.4.21-32.0.1 .
The machine is not connected to the network. all the files in the system are read-only. Is the problem is due to read-only files ?
pls help me on this

Well, you write the files are read only. This does not necessary mean that the filesystem is mounted read-only.
Can you post the output of
mount
df -k
and the ls -l against the particluar file system.

If e.g. the particular filesystem is myfilesystem and is mounted under root (/) then will
touch /myfilesystem/testfile
create a file or not ?

I moved your post and the relevant responses away from
the 4 year old carcass of a thread. Please don't hi-jack
threads, or create zombies by re-animating old stuff like
that, specially if it doesn't really match your question.