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/tmp coming up read only



Hello,

I am trying to get staroffice up and running.

/tmp on root partition was too small, SO install was filling /tmp.

repartitioned drive gave /tmp 300MB on /dev/hda9.

why is this file system coming up read only?

ls -l shows drwxr-xr-x on /tmp, owner root, group root when system boots up. I had to manually chmod 777 /tmp as root to be able to write to /tmp as a normal user.

What did I do??


etc/fstab>>>
/dev/hda2    /       ext2    defaults,errors=remount-ro      0       1
/dev/hda3    none            swap    sw                      0       0
proc         /proc           proc    defaults                0       0
/dev/fd0     /floppy         auto    defaults,user,noauto    0       0
/dev/cdrom   /cdrom          iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0       0
/dev/hda6    /var    ext2    rw                              0       2
/dev/hda7    /home   ext2    rw                              0       2
/dev/hda8    /usr    ext2    rw                              0       2
/dev/hda9    /tmp    ext2    rw                              0       2

Thanks in advance and thanks for valuable responses to my previous star office questions.

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