[Leaplist] CentOS question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Carter Manucy wrote:

> 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
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It could well be. I have been having intermittent but persistent 
problems out of this box for a while. Much of it seemed to be SuSE 
specific, but who knows .... David said something about having 2 HDD's 
on 1 IDE channel spelling trouble, could something like that be it ?

As far as RO FS, The FS is the root FS in this case, which means the 
syslog file would be locked out as well (no separate /var, /tmp, etc., 
all under /), & that is not so ....

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