read only file system

Henry Olders yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Feb 25 20:03:01 2004


On Wednesday, Feb 25, 2004, at 12:46 Canada/Eastern, mascarasnake wrote:

> If you're running the 2.4.22-2g kernel, you should be able to mount 
> hfs+ with r/w access. In my experience, by no means meant to be an 
> across the board statement, hfs support has been kinda quirky. 
> (writing to hfs volumes kept damaging the disk, beyond disk first 
> aid's ability to repair - other folks seem to have no problems).

According to the contents of /proc/version, I'm running 2.4.22-2f. 
Would this make a difference?
>
> have you tried mounting it manually as root?
>
> sudo mount -w -t hfsplus /dev/hda9 /mnt/hfs

still says read-only. Thanks for the suggestion, though!

Henry