On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Signal 11 wrote:
>
> > Basically, many of the files in my home (non-root) directory on my
> > machine seem unwritable, I geta permission denied error - yet all of the
> > permissions seem normal, they are owned by the correct user, and are
> > u+rw. I did not do anything significant that I can think of to cause
>
> Check the directory permissions, they need to be u+rwx.
This is probably the case. `ls -ld .`
Can you create a file in /tmp? If no, skip down to the reserve percentage
comment below.
>Also be sure you /are/ the correct user with a "whois".
"whoami"
> > before last. A quick df tells me that my hard-disk has 10% free space
> > so I don't think it is a "device full" problem.
>
> Ext2, as well as most filesystems, reserve a percentage of the disk for
> root-only access, incase the disk becomes full. This can be adjusted
> via tune2fs ("You can tune a filesystem but you can't tuna fish"), or
> at fs creation time via the -m parameter to mkfs.ext2 IIRC.
It usually defaults to 5% (or 5MB on some systems) however. Ian said he
has 10% available. This could be the issue, though, especially if this
capacity was just recently reduced. If you su to root, can you create the
file? If yes, consider the possibility.
> Another possibility is extended permissions. Do an lsattr and make sure
> nothing there is enabled. Unlikely, but possible.
Very unlikely.
> Lastly, run mount with no arguments and make sure you didn't mount
> the filesystem readonly...
Unless /home is a separate partition, this is unlikely . . . most systems
will automatically remount the root partition rw after the boot fsck.
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