From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKECp-0001uE-Kl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:05:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8RBvEdE015506; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:57:14 GMT Received: from qproxy.gmail.com (qproxy.gmail.com [72.14.204.201]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8RBrV9j003688 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:53:31 GMT Received: by qproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id f10so509314qba for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 05:00:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DGI51Oe/RlJdK0PAeYXGLHxmmOI3HWK2xtuhyq+X6LniWMbc3FLfRhWhpNZsVxKavF2K31PLefTKSueo+nxDWXWjLK4cWhKZRsB9I4wn8OpOc/9Ty545Lh/drUhqbw6ueM+THSkW+KoYHbL+X0lZpPzYGbvWPyT1n2Y6dwhwRbU= Received: by 10.65.23.2 with SMTP id a2mr609523qbj; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 05:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.43.18 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 05:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5491fade05092705004f3f6499@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:00:32 -0400 From: James Hiscock <boxroot@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root (/) read-only? In-Reply-To: <e22605be05092704517720ecf8@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d02f2b7050926215865b24750@mail.gmail.com> <200509270830.32068.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> <20050927085454.5f11d0ad@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <e22605be05092704517720ecf8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j8RBrV9j003688 X-Archives-Salt: daea8e57-b4e3-4ab2-bd06-ce71eb2ac9d8 X-Archives-Hash: 86ce14fdcf2f5be68e383e3f11e4d4a0 On 9/27/05, glumtail <glumtail@gmail.com> wrote: > This happens offen in my system. > > My root filesystem is reiserfs and /home is ext3, when i extract tar > packages it says it is a readonly filesystem. Fix your /etc/fstab - it thinks your root partition is xfs, when it isn't. You either: a) didn't change it during installation; or b) overwrote it in a recent update. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list