Hi, Li Daobing: > sometimes one partition will be read only, > for example: > $touch tt > touch: cannot touch `tt': Read-only file system > Please examine your kernel log (/var/log/kern.log). This is, most likely, a file system corruption or a disk error. -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | smurf@smurf.noris.de