From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 31 17:30:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from realtime.net (dragon.realtime.net [205.238.128.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A578037B718 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 17:30:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brucegb@realtime.net) Received: from tigerfish2.my.domain ([205.238.179.183]) by realtime.net ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:30:42 -0600 Received: (from brucegb@localhost) by tigerfish2.my.domain (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f311Vm707647 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:31:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brucegb) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:31:48 -0600 From: Bruce Burden To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: read-only flag on disk, somewhere? Message-ID: <20010331193148.A7613@tigerfish2.my.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi gang, I used /stand/sysinstall to partition, label and mkfs an additional SCSI disk in my machine. I also allowed it to start installing from the distribution CD before killing /stand/sysinstall. (I did this because I can't figure out how to get mkfs to happen otherwise...) Anyway, the "a" slice seems to have a read-only bit hidden in it somewhere. I have tried to mount it as both /tmp and /var, and both times I have been unable to write in this directory as a not-root user. Permissions are the same as the original directory from what I can tell, so all I can figure is there is a hidden flag somewhere. In need of a clue, Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message