Bill Gribble wrote: > > Is the filesystem mounted read-write? You can tell by typing 'mount' > with no arguments. In parenthesis at the end of the line it > should say (rw) for read-write or (r) for read-only. > > If you are mounted read-only, you can change it to read-write by doing > mount -n -o remount,rw / > > This is supposed to be done automatically at boot time by the script > /etc/init.d/boot . It depends on your /etc/fstab having the correct > entry for you root file system... does your /etc/fstab look correct? > Unfortunately it *should* be read/write. It says so... I seem to get a "File too big" error every time I attempt to write anything to it, although df says the partition is at 66%.
If I reboot with a floppy and mount the hard disk partition by hand, I am able to write to it. I am clueless as to what I can do or why the problem occurs... Maybe some library is wrong? Any other ideas? Thanks very much! Luis.
