LinuxQuestions.org - read-only file system

- Linux - Newbie (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/)

- - read-only file system (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/read-only-file-system-108453/)

the_little_one

10-25-2003 04:20 PM

read-only file system

i tryed to buid a lfs by the book and i have a problem: the hdd i used it had some files and i forgot to delet them. when i wrote "wke2fs /dev/xxx" those files become unredeemable and when i try to delete them it telles me "read-only file system". what shoud i do??
excuse my english and please help :((

Kurt M. Weber

10-25-2003 07:15 PM

Mount the partition read-write...man mount for more details.

trickykid

10-25-2003 07:53 PM

When your using the mk2fs command to format the hard drive to install LFS onto, it should pretty much wipe out any files you had on the drive. No need or reason to worry about deleting them now.

Regards.

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 05:27 AM.