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Subject: Re: mount -u -o rw /     not working on NFS?
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>> diskless101#mkdir /aaa
>> mkdir aaa: Read-only file system
>>
>> Question: if the remount did not succeed, why didn't it throw an error? If succeeded, why can't I write on the filesystem?
>>
>>     
>
> The answer to the second portion is that you're mounted as a read only
> file system, so there's no write access.
>   
You were right. Actually I had /etc/exports file setup correctly, but I 
forgot to invoke "killall -HUP mountd" after the last change. My bad. :-(

But... I'm still interested in the first portion. Why didn't I get an 
error message if the nfs share was read-only?
> There's an nfs permissions file you may need to edit, /etc/exports/,
> which controls whether NFS shares the file system as read only, read
> write, whether root can have root on the file system etc.
>   

The case is solved, but I still have this question. :-)

Thanks,

   Laszlo