File won't move

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Feb 2 16:50:36 UTC 2007


In the last episode (Feb 02), Jay Chandler said:
> Have a file mounted on an NFS share.
> 
> I attempt to move it, rename it, copy it, or just about ANYTHING to
> it as root, and get a Permission Denied error.
> 
> How can I figure out what's going on?

Root usually has no permissions over NFS (it gets mapped to the user
"nobody").  Try manipulating the file directly on the NFS server.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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