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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Root and non-root user not able to delete the file Post 302780685 by sukhdip on Friday 15th of March 2013 01:12:10 AM
Old 03-15-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by verdepollo
Aside form the most common "issues" like a partition being explicitly mounted read-only or a faulty disk array, there's been a widely known bug in RHEL 5 -more specifically in its kernel- where a filesystem might go read-only with no apparent reason.

It has been extensively documented (and fixed) both by RedHat and by VMWare as it mostly affects RHEL servers running under a hypervisor:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494927
VMware KB: Linux based file systems become read-only

Either upgrade your kernel to a newer version or use the quick and dirty (and temporary) approach of rebooting the machine.

...of course not before trying mount -o remount <your_filesystem>
Thanks alot for ur ans .. letme try and i will post the results.

---------- Post updated at 12:12 AM ---------- Previous update was at 12:01 AM ----------

one thing more i want to add. that after restarting the system. few more files are being created by both root and non-root automatically. those files are deletable by root.
If the file system is read only. how still these files are being created or i can delete??
Can anyone please tell is it happening due to bug or some other reason stands for it?
 

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systemd-remount-fs.service

SYSTEMD-REMOUNT-FS.SERVICE(8)				    systemd-remount-fs.service				     SYSTEMD-REMOUNT-FS.SERVICE(8)

NAME

       systemd-remount-fs.service, systemd-remount-fs - Remount root and kernel file systems

SYNOPSIS

       systemd-remount-fs.service

       /lib/systemd/systemd-remount-fs

DESCRIPTION

       systemd-remount-fs.service is an early boot service that applies mount options listed in fstab(5) to the root file system, the /usr file
       system, and the kernel API file systems. This is required so that the mount options of these file systems -- which are pre-mounted by the
       kernel, the initial RAM disk, container environments or system manager code -- are updated to those listed in /etc/fstab. This service
       ignores normal file systems and only changes the root file system (i.e.	/), /usr and the virtual kernel API file systems such as /proc,
       /sys or /dev. This service executes no operation if /etc/fstab does not exist or lists no entries for the mentioned file systems.

       For a longer discussion of kernel API file systems see API File Systems[1].

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), fstab(5), mount(8)

NOTES

	1. API File Systems
	   https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/APIFileSystems

systemd 237													     SYSTEMD-REMOUNT-FS.SERVICE(8)
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