[Leaplist] CentOS question ....

[Carter Manucy]

William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> [root at cmi2400:/etc, Thu Jan 18, 10:16 PM] 284 # mkdir /media/dvd
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/dvd': Permission denied

Erm, this smells like something else... I commonly use the /media 
directory for... well, just that:

 # ll /media
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 22 16:31 dvd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 23 10:36 external-usb
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 30 22:25 plextor
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 21:51 rev
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 22:09 sony_handycam
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 21:10 usb-stick

Anyway, this almost smells like a filesystem that's mounted in read-only 
mode.  Most common reason for that is when the kernel sees I/O errors 
and remounts the FS RO to prevent damage to it.

Are you sure this isn't part of a bigger problem?

-Carter