[NCLUG] error message

[Kennan Blehm]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Bryan Stillwell wrote:

> >[root at anvar kmblehm]# ls -l /usr/bin/top
> >-r-sr-xr-x   1 518      518        266140 Mar  7  2000 /usr/bin/top
> >[root at anvar kmblehm]# chmod 555 /usr/bin/top
> >chmod: /usr/bin/top: Operation not permitted
>
> Well, that's rather unusual.  Perhaps your root filesystem is readonly
> or the file is set immutable.  Also why is the file ownership 518.518?
>
> To check if the filesystem is read-only, run `cat /proc/mounts`, if it
> says something like:
>
> /dev/hda1 / ext2 ro 0 0
>
>
> It's readonly and you'll have to probably fsck it and then remount it:
>
> fsck -C /dev/hda1 && mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda1


[root at anvar kmblehm]# cat /proc/mounts
/dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/hda3 /home/kmblehm/PLAY ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/hda4 /slashmount ext2 rw 0 0
[root at anvar kmblehm]#

I'm confused about /dev/root.

[root at anvar kmblehm]# ls -l /dev/root
ls: /dev/root: No such file or directory
[root at anvar kmblehm]#

Plus hda1 didn't even show up. FYI, I'm working on a rhat 6.2 box.

Thanks for the pointers...

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Kennan Blehm					 kmblehm at sigkill.com
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