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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.

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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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