read only dirForum: Other Help Topics Topic: read only dir started by: hswerdfe Posted by hswerdfe on April 22 2006,19:46
running DSL from CD with option
I added
to the file
and rebooted but I still can not write to that directory even as root.both user and group is listed as 1000 all I want to do is install some mycroft plugins. is there an easy way to do this? Posted by mikshaw on April 22 2006,20:02
/usr is a symlink to /KNOPPIX/usr until you install a *.dsl extension or run /etc/mkwriteable. It's possible that even after doing this, files in /usr/local/firefox might link into the read-only KNOPPIX filesystem.Is it possible to create a user searchplugins directory in /home/dsl/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>? Posted by hswerdfe on April 22 2006,20:58
creating the search plugins in
or in there about does not seam to work. there is a bug about it in bugzilla marked as fixed. but there is arguments about if it is actually fixed. as for
it does not seem to exist on my DSL cd and I can't find a man page or howto on google. is it the same as the "toram" boot option? does it take arguments? like "mkwriteable /usr/local/firefox" ? would I have to add it to a startup script? thanks how my system is low ram so if it is the same as toram its not a good option, for me. Posted by mikshaw on April 22 2006,23:45
sorry...i typed the wrong path. It's /etc/init.d/mkwriteable. It's not the same as toram, and it's not really documented anywhere. It's automatically run if you install a myDSL package with a *.dsl filename, but can also be run directly by root (sudo /etc/init.d/mkwriteable) or forced to run during boot with the "dsl write" boot option.What it does is open up the /usr, /bin, and /sbin directories so you can write to them. These directories start off as symlinks to the read-only knoppix filesystem, and the script replaces the symlinks with copies of the original directories. However, most of the files within those directories remain symlinks to the files in /KNOPPIX, so you would need to overwrite the symlinks with copies of the /KNOPPIX/something/* files if you want to modify them. I'm not sure if the firefox files fall into this category. The re-linking of the directories' contents as a replacement for linking the directories themselves is a sort of tradeoff so you can still write, but your ram isn't being sucked up by having the whole decompressed filesystem copied into it. Posted by hswerdfe on April 23 2006,20:11
yah thanks mikshawbut Its a no go. I tried running mkwritable. and I do see what it does now a simple "ls -l /" tells me that...to some degree but the firefox folder is still not writable. ahh well...I tryied to modify the faq in the dsl wiki to explain to people what dir's are writable and what is not as I don't believe it is clear. but sadly the wiki is locked. I am thinking about maybe mounting something on that dir to solve the issue not sure if this will work , but it is the current plan. I kinda thought that was what the backup.tar.gz file was doing anyway.. |