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Old 04-16-2005, 08:39 PM   #1
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mkdir: cannot create directory `test': Read-only file system


i just got a second harddrive and am trying to use it for backup purposes.

i attempted to make a new directory as in the subject above, but got a problem with a read only filesystem error. (funny, it worked before i ran mount -a if i recall, since i was able to successfully delete lost+found)

i suppose my fstab is incorrect, but this is what it looks like:

Code:
LABEL=/                 /                       ext2    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
LABEL=/home             /home                   ext2    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/usr              /usr                    ext2    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/hdb1               /backup                 ext3    defaults        1 2 
mount displays the following:

Code:
/dev/hda6 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda2 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /var type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda3 on /home type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /backup type ext3 (rw)
not sure what else it could be... i assume i have to fix my fstab, but how?

btw, i am willing to reformat this drive correctly if i did something wrong in the format.

Last edited by punt; 04-16-2005 at 09:55 PM.
 
Old 04-16-2005, 09:38 PM   #2
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"i attempted to make a new directory as in the subject above, but got a problem with a read only filesystem error. (funny, it worked before i ran mount -a if i recall, since i was able to successfully delete lost+found)

i suppose my fstab is incorrect, but this is what it looks like:"

This could be a permissions problem. Use:
ls -l /backup
to display the permissions for /backup. It is also possible that root has rw permission and user only has read permission.

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Old 04-16-2005, 09:58 PM   #3
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thanks. that worked.

i'm not sure why root wouldn't be able to do it (it was chmod 755 before i changed the permissions to 777 in order to make it work.) oh well, i'm glad it does.

thanks again.
 
  


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