On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Rachid Ayad wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>
>>  Hello Akemi, I think there is a prolem with changin permission,
>> owner,groups in SL: I was doing this all my life with other linux-like
>> systems and I never had any problem in particular if I was doing from root.
>> I followed your procedure by unmounting, mounting, and remounting but it
>> works for few minutes and later my mounted path (HD) looses its rw option
>> and becomes only read-only. I tried it several times because I checked that
>> now chown command shows that /scratch is read-only, so I unmouted, mounted,
>> and remount as you said above, then run "chown" it works for a while(but
>> before it immediately says read-only) and then messages saying /scratch file
>> system are read-only. The same thing happened when we tried to let files
>> from a user seen from another user by running: "chmod -R g+rw directory"
>> from root but after doing this the second user still do not see the files
>> even if the two users have the group.
>>
>>  Regards, rachid .

> Check your various system logs.  You may have a bad filesystem or failing
> hard drive.  When the OS detects problems, it has a tendency to auto-remount
> read-only.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark

Yes, that description indicates some problem causing the filesystem to
go read-only.  Umount the troubled filesystem and try running fsck on
it.

Akemi

Akemi