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Old 07-06-2011
Unable to create or delete a directory in /usr with root user
Hi All,

I am trying to uninstall jdk 1.5 from my Solaris 10 64 bit but some how was not successful.so tried to delete the folder of jdk from /usr but its throughing error as:
Code:
Unable to remove directory jdk: Read-only file system

Even I tried to create a dir in /usr but its not allowing me to do sogetting below error:
Code:
mkdir: Failed to make directory "temp"; Read-only file system

I am doing these things with a root user


Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Priyanka
Last edited by pludi; 07-06-2011 at 05:19 AM..
# 2  
Old 07-06-2011
check here...

are you root user ?

https://www.unix.com/os-x-apple/15417...tem-error.html

How to Fix ?Read-only file system? Error in Linux? | LinuxInsight
# 3  
Old 07-06-2011
yes I am root user.
# 4  
Old 07-06-2011
It is not an NFS mount or a directory set in Automounter? /home is a typical example of this.
# 5  
Old 07-06-2011
I bet you are in a sparse zone. If thats the case, then these filesystems are readonly in the zone:
  • /lib
  • /platform
  • /sbin
  • /usr
If you have to make changes to these directories then you have to do it in the global zone.

To verify that you are in a non-global zone, type
Code:
zonename

If it prints something different than "global", you are in a zone.
Last edited by hergp; 07-06-2011 at 07:11 AM.. Reason: Added more info
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