Re: UFS-write problem

[Martin Alfke <martin@10ergang.de>]

On 07.12.2003, at 13:02, arvind@acarlab.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just upgraded my Sun Ultra5 to Woody_r1-ish state. Everything's 
> working - XFree86-4.1.0woody, devfsd, ext3, enlightenment, sound, etc. 
> Kernel has the netfilter-bridge-0.0.7 patch. Finally my Ultra5 is as 
> good as the PCs.
>
> My problem is - I can't write to the UFS SunOS-7 partition. The kernel 
> has been configured with CONFIG_UFS_FS=m and CONFIG_UFS_WRITE=y. I can 
> mount the partiton read-write and copy files from it. But when I try 
> to write to it, ( with cp or dd ) I get a strange error message - 
> 'cannot create regular file XXXX: read-only file system'. 'mount' 
> shows it to be mounted rw on /sundisk; and the ufs.o module is loaded. 
> I tried to write to it as root too - but same message.
>
> I have been regularly reading/writing to the UFS partition with the 
> previous Debian-potato installation before.
> ...

> - Arvind R.
Hi Arvind,

I had the same problem some some days ago running Linux (2.4.23)
on a Sun Netra1.

We solved the problem with remounting the sun-ufs partition.

mount -o remount,rw <ufs-device>

Sincerly,

	Martin