On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 14:40 -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > I have an external hard drive that for some reason in the last couple of > days was changed to a read-only file system. I have looked at > /etc/fstab and the drive is being mounted correctly as rw. I have > looked at the permissions of the drive and they all seem correct also. > Even if I am logged in as su, I am not able to delete any files on the > drive. > > Is there a way to change this so that the drive works correctly? All > the other drives are working properly, just not this one. Providing there is not a *REASON* the drive was switched to RO by the kernel; i.e. a hardware issue or something of the like... As root: mount -oremount,rw /mount/point Where /mount/point s where the drive is mounted. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0
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