>> I'm a newbie in Plan 9.
>> My problem is that I need to copy some files to the root ("/")
>> directory, but when I try that, the system returns:
>>
>> cp can't create /<filename>:
>> '/<filename>' mounted directory forbids creation
>>
>> I know (or better, I think) it's a permission problem,
>> so how can I do to write in that directory?
>>
>> Thanks to everybody in advance.
>
> Plan 9 allows mounting multiple file systems at the same mount point,
> one before or after the other. If you have multiple file systems
> mounted on, say, '/', then, when you create a file or directory
> in '/', something has to tell the system in which of the mounted file
> systems this file should be created. Hence the -c flag on mount and bind.
> mount -c /srv/x mountpoint
> of
> bind -c dir mountpoint
> says that this is the file system in which new files should be created.
> Needless to say, you can only do one -c mount or bind per mountpoint.
>
> I bet your root file system isn't mounted with the -c flag.
>
> Sape
Following up on my own mail after a little discussion in the Unix room,
we asked
1. Why would you want to create a file in the root directory in the first place?
it's probably not a good place.
2. The standard boot script mounts the root directory without -c. You can, if
you insist, remount the root file system. But note point 1 above :-)
Sape
