From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dir is rwx but can't create file
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:52:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007282252.31933.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=zNjNmVLLijmHXotCM+mn_x7Vkndqf9d6QF__s@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 22:20:17 Andrey Vul wrote:
> Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch
> /tmp/foo => strerror(ENOENT)).
> However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root.
> df -i shows only 2% inode usage.
> Any explanation as to why a rwx-ed dir can't be written to? This is
> breaking quite a few of the init scripts.
>
> --
> Andrey Vul
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sounds like / is mounted read-only
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-28 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 20:20 [gentoo-user] dir is rwx but can't create file Andrey Vul
2010-07-28 20:52 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-07-28 22:11 ` Bill Longman
2010-07-29 0:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrey Vul
2010-07-29 12:56 ` Andrey Vul
2010-07-29 13:00 ` Andrey Vul
2010-07-29 11:24 ` walt
2010-07-29 12:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-29 12:31 ` Alex Schuster
2010-07-30 5:34 ` Andrey Vul
2010-07-30 5:37 ` Andrey Vul
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