the hostowner might not have permission to write in / on the file system (ie, it&#39;s not like unix&#39;s &quot;root&quot;)<div>if you try the mount -c /srv/boot /n/boot method:</div><div><div>   h% mount -c /srv/boot /n/boot</div>
<div>   h% ls -ld /n/boot</div><div>   d-rwxrwxr-x M 62152 adm adm 0 Mar  2  2010 /n/boot</div><div>on my system, i&#39;d need to be adm or someone in group adm. you can add yourself to</div><div>group adm (perhaps not always wise, but i suppose sometimes it&#39;s reasonable), but you need</div>
<div>to use the file system console for that as well.</div><div><br><div>that&#39;s why it&#39;s usually easier to create it via the console, as suggested.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 May 2012 21:49, andrew zerger <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rhoyerboat@gmail.com" target="_blank">rhoyerboat@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Well, my hostowner user cant seem to fudge the /tmp either (not by any sane means such as unmount or rm) </blockquote></div>
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