On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Mark Stodola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rachid Ayad wrote: >> >> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> Hello Akemi, I think there is a prolem with changin permission, >> owner,groups in SL: I was doing this all my life with other linux-like >> systems and I never had any problem in particular if I was doing from root. >> I followed your procedure by unmounting, mounting, and remounting but it >> works for few minutes and later my mounted path (HD) looses its rw option >> and becomes only read-only. I tried it several times because I checked that >> now chown command shows that /scratch is read-only, so I unmouted, mounted, >> and remount as you said above, then run "chown" it works for a while(but >> before it immediately says read-only) and then messages saying /scratch file >> system are read-only. The same thing happened when we tried to let files >> from a user seen from another user by running: "chmod -R g+rw directory" >> from root but after doing this the second user still do not see the files >> even if the two users have the group. >> >> Regards, rachid .
> Check your various system logs. You may have a bad filesystem or failing > hard drive. When the OS detects problems, it has a tendency to auto-remount > read-only. > > Cheers, > Mark Yes, that description indicates some problem causing the filesystem to go read-only. Umount the troubled filesystem and try running fsck on it. Akemi Akemi