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Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:39:00 -0600
From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie question
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create it in /root rather than /. the 'ns' command will show you that
/root is mounted at / very early on.

On 5/23/07, Fabrizio Colalucci <fabrizio.colalucci@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>        I'm a newbie in Plan 9.
> My problem is that I need to copy some files to the root ("/")
> directory, but when I try that, the system returns:
>
> cp can't create /<filename>:
> '/<filename>' mounted directory forbids creation
>
> I know (or better, I think) it's a permission problem,
> so how can I do to write in that directory?
>
> Thanks to everybody in advance.
>