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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dir is rwx but can't create file
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:52:31 +0200
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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.
> 
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sounds like / is mounted read-only


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