[Fedora-xen] Cannot create files or dirs even as root on FC6 xen system

[W Craig Trader]

Cheesin ...

Do you have the autofs daemon running, and does your /etc/auto.master 
file reference mounting devices on /misc, using the definitions in 
/etc/auto.misc?  Once upon a time, RedHat Linux used autofs to 
dynamically mount the CDROM on /misc/cdrom; if you've got an older 
system that's been upgraded, you might still have a remnant of that 
style of configuration.  If you run "ps aux | grep automount", it will 
show you which mappings are active; if you see something like 
"/usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 /misc program /etc/auto.misc" you've 
found the culprit.

- Craig -

Tan Chee Sin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed a FC6 xen guest system and there is a /misc folder 
> which I want to create files and directories. I get a permission 
> denied when I try to do so even when I am root.
>
> # pwd
> /misc
> # mkdir test
>
> mkdir: cannot create directory `test': Permission denied
>
> When I do a directoy listing on /, misc is 0 bytes.
>
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     0 Nov 21 13:24 misc
>
> I have listed the disk space usage and the fstab below.
> # df -k
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/xvda1            11904588   1830176   9459928  17% /
> tmpfs                   768000         0    768000   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/xvda3             5431008    171288   4979388   4% /var
>
> # cat /etc/fstab
> LABEL=/1                /                       ext3    
> defaults        1 1
> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  
> gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   
> defaults        0 0
> proc                    /proc                   proc    
> defaults        0 0
> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   
> defaults        0 0
> LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    
> defaults        1 2
> LABEL=SWAP-xvda2        swap                    swap    
> defaults        0 0
>
> I'm not sure if this issue happens only on FC6 xen but I am able to 
> create files and directories on a FC5 xen system.
>
> cheesin
>
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