Problems changing permissions

[Mike McCarty]

Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> Someone with the reply address of
> replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net
> 
> Asked how the partition was mounted -- I cant reply directly to them for
> some reason, so here's my answer
> 
> The bin directory is on the / partition, so as far as I know, it should
> be read write, but I don't know how to confirm its mount status for sure

$ mount
/dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/hda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
$

Mike
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