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Subject: Re: READ ONLY slice part II
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From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
Date: 05 Sep 2000 13:51:16 -0400
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vedette@iconnect.co.ke (Odhiambo Washington) writes:

> What I meant is that the fstab shows that /win should be mounted rw while
> the output of the real mount is actually 'reads' !!

So?  That doesn't mean it's mounted read-only.  It means that the
number following the 'reads:' is a count of the *number* of reads done
from that partition.

At least on -STABLE, the mount command *will* tell you that a
partition is 'read-only'.  Your sample output doesn't do that, so I
suspect your partition *is* writeable.

I repeat my advice from my previous message:
    At a guess, I'd say that's due to user permissions.  Remember that
    there's no user information (or access permissions) in a DOS
    partition, so the mount command fakes it by using the mountpoint's
    information.  See the man page for mount_msdos(8) for details. 

I could be wrong in that guess, but until you provide some evidence
otherwise, I'll stick with it.  If I'm right, the easy answer would be
to change the ownership of the mount point (and remount the disk).

Good luck.


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