Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Steve Kemp wrote: On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 11:44:47 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: So, you're telling me that if someone uses ext3 they will get a default file system that's read/write, but if they choose any other available file system it will be read only by default even though xen-tools

Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 11:44:47 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > So, you're telling me that if someone uses ext3 they will get a default > file system that's read/write, but if they choose any other available > file system it will be read only by default even though xen-tools.conf > doesn't

Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Steve Kemp wrote: On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 11:10:21 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: OK. That was stupid of me not to look at /etc/fstab. Ignoring the error message was an oversight, but not a stupid one. But, why are xen-tools creating a read only domU file system by default i

Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 11:10:21 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > OK. That was stupid of me not to look at /etc/fstab. Ignoring the error message was an oversight, but not a stupid one. > But, why are > xen-tools creating a read only domU file system by default in the first > place?

Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Steve Kemp wrote: On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 09:10:27 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: [7.149690] ReiserFS: xvda2: warning: bad value "remount-ro" for option "errors" There's your problem. Remove "remount-ro" from /etc/fstab, after remounting it read/write via: mount -o remou

Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 09:10:27 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > [7.149690] ReiserFS: xvda2: warning: bad value "remount-ro" for > option "errors" There's your problem. Remove "remount-ro" from /etc/fstab, after remounting it read/write via: mount -o remount,rw / Or mounting it

xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Freddy Freeloader
I have another question on xen. I cannot get xen to create a guest that has read/write access to its own file system. I've been Googling this and reading documentation but so far haven't been able to find anything on this. I have two different systems run xen now. One is 32-bit, the other 6