Error mounting Linux ext2fs drive

Subhro subhro.kar at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 07:23:22 PDT 2004


sysctl -a | grep securelevel ?

Regards
S.


On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:52:06 -0500, Damon Butler <damon at hddesign.com> wrote:
> Grégory Nou wrote:
> > May sound as a stupid question, but did you actually logged as root, or
> > su before performing this command ?
> 
> marcio.mallavazzi at unibanco.com.br wrote:
> > Have you tried to mount the drive as root?
> 
> Heh. Yes indeed, first thing I tried. I've also tried mounting the drive
> as virtually every other user that exists. No dice.
> 
> > What is in the /var/log/messages file?
> 
> I'm not sitting in front of the machine, so I can't tell you. If you
> still think it's relevant, I'll fetch a copy of it as soon as I can.
> 
> > What kind of error?
> 
> I wish I knew. The error message is no more explicit than "Operation not
> permitted." Seriously. Here's the error in full:
> 
>     ext2fs: /dev/ad0s1: Operation not permitted
> 
> My attempts at Googling some help have so far proven useless. Bother.
> 
> 
> --Damon
> 
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