From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: Permission Denied errors in ReiserFS Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:51:32 +0400 Message-ID: <20020423105132.C2930@namesys.com> References: <20020422084257.GC25655@flex.com.au> <20020422124902.A8689@namesys.com> <20020422160215.GB27862@flex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020422160215.GB27862@flex.com.au> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Khoury Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hello! On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:02:15AM +1000, David Khoury wrote: > Run reiserfsck --fix-fixable on your ReiserFS partition. Make sure you're > using at least verion 3.x.1c-pre2 of the reiserfsprogs. You'll have to boot No! In fact there is a reason we have pre versions separate from releases. Latest pre version should only be used if latest release does not work. Some prior consulting in this list might help, too. > from a floppy or cdrom, if your ReiserFS partiton is the root partition. > Remounting the root filesystem as 'ro' isn't enough. > (this is obvious to me now, when I consider metadata cacheing. It's a > bummer, because it would have been wonderful to do an fsck on a 'ro' mounted > filesystem). New pivot_root stuff in should cure that. Because you can actually unmount root. (or should be able to do it, anyway). Bye, Oleg