Re: NFS

From: Ian Northeast (ian_at_house-from-hell.demon.co.uk)
Date: 10/17/04


Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:45:39 +0100

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:12:09 +0000, giuseppe wrote:

> I've just mounted NFS partition and in my fstab file I got the line:
>
> 10.0.0.8:/home/giuseppe/Documents/IPsec /mnt/IPsec nfs
> user,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft 0 0
>
> When I try to write with emacs into the mounted directory ,in this case
> /mnt/IPsec, I get the message "Read only file system".
>
> Why? The option ro doesn't appear in the fstab!!!
>
> And Owner,User and Group have RW rights on that file!!!
>
> How can I be able to modify these files?

Check /etc/exports on the server and ensure the relevant entry contains
"rw". Then "exportfs -a" to re-export.

Regards, Ian



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