On 8/25/05, Stephen Shirley <diamond at skynet.ie> wrote:
> Michael Thompson wrote:
> > A read only filesystem could just be that is mounted as another user,
> > i.e. root, and or without write permissions.
>> Yes, but see his previous mail which shows that a) it's mounted as root,
> and... Ah. I see what happened, i think colin replied to me personally
> by mistake. I'll paste in the appropriate bits in here:
>
> >
> > Now, when I mount, heres the ls-ld /media/ipod output
> >
> > drwxrwxrwx 11 root root 4096 1970-01-01 01:00 /media/ipod/
> >
> > and heres the output of id
> >
> > uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
>I'd say it's still worth looking at the output of the mount command to
check that the correct device is mounted and with what options.
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