From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 21:47:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895A216A4CF for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:47:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.tsgincorporated.com (smtp1.tsgincorporated.com [67.66.242.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A9D43D55 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:47:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micheal@tsgincorporated.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.tsgincorporated.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.tsgincorporated.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5DDA3A7433; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:47:36 -0500 (CDT) Received: from smtp1.tsgincorporated.com ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with ESMTP id 80688-01; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:47:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from smtp3.tsgincorporated.com (support.tsgincorporated.com [67.66.242.9]) by smtp1.tsgincorporated.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DA73A742E; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:47:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from micheal (micheal.tsgincorporated.com [67.66.242.77]) by smtp3.tsgincorporated.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 65C3162888; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:47:35 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <00a601c4b237$6a5a6170$4df24243@tsgincorporated.com> From: "Micheal Patterson" To: "steveb99" References: <200410072252.i97Mqifa084091@wattres.Watt.COM><20041008084627.GA48159@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk><44vfdds39q.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20041014165827.GI29177@elvis.mu.org> <416EEF83.1090104@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:47:33 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at tsgincorporated.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Read-Only file system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:47:37 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "steveb99" Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:28 PM Subject: Read-Only file system > I appear to have hosed myself and having trouble finding out what I do > and how to fix it. It appears that many of my file-systems are now > saying they are read-only and I can't do anything with them, even when I > login as root. > I'm still learning so not a production mess. Can someone point to me how > a file system can become Read-Only, the file permissions are fine. > Also can this be repaired if so what should I be reading to learn to do > that. > > TIA, > Steve B. First thing I would look at would be to make sure that the settings in /etc/fstab are configured to be mount your slices as read write (rw) instead of read only (r). Your /etc/fstab should have entries similar to the one below. This would be a normal one. /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 Where you see rw, if that is an r only, then the file system will be mounted as read only and cause your problem. -- Micheal Patterson Senior Communications Systems Engineer 405-917-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.