Can't remove or change a directory [corrected]

[Gijs]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Gijs wrote:
>
>   
>> Les wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 11:44 -0800, Les wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 13:49 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> I have an fc7 box that I'm trying to remove a directory on. I don't
>>>>> remember why I was playing with the directory permissions in the first
>>>>> place, but I just want to get rid of it.
>>>>>
>>>>> the directory is in /root and looks like this:
>>>>> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 2007-11-09 15:35 tmp
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't do anything with it. Any file change I try to make, chmod, rm,
>>>>> mv, etc I get this error like:
>>>>> chmod: changing permissions of `tmp': Read-only file system
>>>>>
>>>>> How can I get rid of this directory? I've been googling in circles and
>>>>> can't find a solution.
>>>>>           
>
> if, indeed, you're talking about the directory /root/tmp, then what
> you're describing is just strange.  typically, /root is in the
> top-level root directory, and that's the filesystem that would be
> relevant here.  i can't see how the root filesystem could currently be
> mounted read-only.
>
> what's the output of "mount"?  and what happens if you try to do some
> trivial file operation in /root, like just "touch fubar"?
>
> and, finally, it really could be just a weird bit of corruption.
> fairly recently, i had a similar issue regarding the mount attributes
> of a filesystem that just didn't make sense, and i couldn't fix it no
> matter what i did.  rebooting finally resolved it, but that's my
> solution of last resort.
>
> rday
>
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> Robert P. J. Day
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> Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
>
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>   
Qoute :

You were right. Had an iso mounted to that dir, duh!!!!

All is good now. 


:)
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