After installing openSUSE 11.0, I have been scratching my head for two
days attempting to re-install storeBackup the way that I had it on
10.3 with your extensive help.

I have all of your notes saved and am at the stage where I am trying
to test it with one small directory being written to with
`touch /local/backup/test` and it keeps returning:



touch /local/backup/test
touch: cannot touch `/local/backup/test': Read-only file system

IF I attempt to create a sub-folder named "test" I receive the
same "Read-only file system" message, but I can't remember if I was
supposed to create this sub-folder or if "touch" does it, or ???

Am I becoming brain dead again, or is our 32C weather affecting me?

Thanks,

Godzilla

Godzilla wrote:
> touch /local/backup/test
> touch: cannot touch `/local/backup/test': Read-only file system

That is because the filesystem is read-only.

My configuration sees to it that the filesystem is read only. That way
you can't delete or overwrite stuff by error. So what you need to do
before you do the backup is to make the partition read/write.

If you use the script like I do to do the backup, it will have one line
that says:
mount $targetDir -o remount,rw
Another later will say:
mount $targetDir -o remount

The first will mount it rw, the second will mount it like it is in
/etc/fstab

So `sudo mount -o /local/backup -o remount,rw` should do it, or whatever
the partition is named.

houghi
--
If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and
Gomorrah an apology.

houghi wrote:

> Godzilla wrote:
>> touch /local/backup/test
>> touch: cannot touch `/local/backup/test': Read-only file system
>
> That is because the filesystem is read-only.
>
> My configuration sees to it that the filesystem is read only. That
> way you can't delete or overwrite stuff by error. So what you need
> to do before you do the backup is to make the partition read/write.
>
> If you use the script like I do to do the backup, it will have one
> line that says:
> mount $targetDir -o remount,rw
> Another later will say:
> mount $targetDir -o remount
>
> The first will mount it rw, the second will mount it like it is in
> /etc/fstab
>
> So `sudo mount -o /local/backup -o remount,rw` should do it, or
> whatever the partition is named.
>
> houghi

Thanks for coming to the rescue again, Houghi. In this heat, my brain
just kept looking at the directory and file permissions, which did
not show to be read only. I forgot that the $targetDir was mounted
read only. In addition, whenever a Texan sees the word "mount,"
his natural instinct is to start looking for a horse. ;-)

Godzilla