Problems changing permissions

[Ben Stringer]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:29 -0400, 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

Run "mount". 

Hopefully you will see "/dev/hda? on / type ext3 (rw)" - the rw in
brackets means the filesystem is mounted read/write.

Not sure what else to suggest here.....

Cheers, Ben

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