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12-11-2003, 02:19 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: MO, USA
Distribution: Mandrake 9.1/9.2(Laptop)
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Read Only hard disk?
On my Linux machine I have a second hard drive used for storing media files. I was trying to free up some space from it, but linux won't let me delete anything, saying that the disk is a read only file system. I even tried removing files as Root, but it says the same thing. How can it be a read only system? I've written files to the drive, but I can't remove them? I tried changing the write permissions, but it says my Root user doesn't have authorization. Any ideas?
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12-11-2003, 02:33 PM
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Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Sparta, NC USA
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
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Post your /etc/fstab file and the output of the command mount, please.
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12-13-2003, 01:25 AM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: dhaka
Distribution: Slackware 11 (fixed), MEPIS
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hello GTBlackwell
your /etc/fstab should look like the following with "rw" (read-write) option:
/dev/hdb /mnt/dvd auto users,owner,rw etc... etc...
pls make sure that the "rw" is in the fourth column
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12-16-2003, 10:16 AM
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Registered: Dec 2003
Distribution: Debian Sid
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Quote:
Originally posted by krussell
/dev/hdb /mnt/dvd auto users,owner,rw
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I hope you're not trying to mount a DVD-ROM as read-write! That, and I didn't know that Linux supported UDF writing in that way ...
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