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SVN: How to setup a read-only branch in Subversion?

As lead web developer for my employer's organization, I'm responsible for configuring and maintaining an SVN repository for each of our web applications. Each has several archived versions and at least a couple of branches. Currently, to deploy the…
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Filesystem is read-write but acts like read-only... remounting fixed it?

CentOS 5.5 I just came across an instance where my /storage directory was supposedly a read-only file system. I get the error: mkdir: cannot create directory `test': Read-only file system df: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted…
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Harddrive issue "read-only"

I'm having an issue where when i mount my partition a few hours later it becomes read-only. Currently i run: fuser -m -k /dev/sdb1 umount /dev/sdb1 fsck -y /dev/sdb1 mount /dev/sdb1 That allows me to remount it in read/write but this is a…
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How to mount a filesystem in a read-only environment?

I have the problem that my machine turned the root filesystem into readonly mode and remounting it as writeable won't work: # mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda1 / mount: block device /dev/sda1 is write-protected, mounting read-only I want to copy some…
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Server Frequently gets Read-Only File System

This server has RAID-1 configured. It get readonly file system everyday. if i reboot it, it gets back with a read-write file system. but after a short while, readonly again... Any idea please? Thanks. # dmesg |grep error VFS: cannot write quota…
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Can ESXi (4.1) mount a VMFS datastore alongside a read-only snapshot of it?

I have a ESXi (4.1) server talking with a Windows Server 2008 R2 storage server, which presents some volumes as iSCSI targets using Microsoft's iSCSI software target; ESXi uses them as its datastores. All fine and good. Microsoft's iSCSI…
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Why can I change the the reserved blocks on a read only mounted ext4 filesystem?

I would have expected an error, sorry FS is read-only, but it is possible. This is unexpected & counter intuitive is there a reason? Linux files 5.11.0-27-generic #29~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 11 15:58:17 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64…
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Gluster Read-Only file system

I'm stuck with this problem and I can't solve it, we have a website so people can upload their videos on it in some path (Temp directory for example) then our admins go and move these video to another location in our servers, backend of this storage…
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Deny Stored Procedure Data Modification by User Security

I want an easy way to make a read-only user on my database. The user should have permission to execute stored procedures only if they don't modify data. I don't want to figure out which stored procedures are read-only and give permissions that way…
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Bitlocker Drive cannot save files on this drive

I have a freshly installed Windows 2008 R2 Server with a C drive containing the operating system and d drive as a normal data drive. Ive turned on encryption on the d drive using Bitlocker. The encryption processed all the files and completed…
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MySQL "Table 'X' is read only"

I'm currently trying to migrate a bunch of databases from one server to another (both servers are running the exact same versions of mysql). Every night I do a backup using mysqlhotcopy. I've copied the backups (all databases, including mysql) via…
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Running mysqldump on a debian system that has gone into read-only mode

An old Debian system of mine has recently had the primary hard drive go into read-only mode due to some disk problem. I have a MySQL database on the server that I would like to backup before trying to repair the harddrive. Luckily I have another…
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Create read-only user on Collabnet Edge SVN

How can I create a read-only user (for access from another websvn server) on a Collabnet Edge SVN server? I do have a level of administrative rights through the web interface as well as direct server access.
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Filesize monitoring powershell script safe to run against a multiuser Access 2003 database?

I'm try to monitor the size of an MS Access Database file which corrupts when the size reaches 2GB. I found the following powershell script which monitors the size of a file, and then runs a command. The script uses (Get-ChildItem…
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Hyper-V Ubuntu 10.04, Filesystem suddenly becomes Read-Only?

We are running a Ubuntu 10.04 VM on a Hyper-V system, The VM is dedicated to running one of our web applications. We have enabled the Hyper-V drivers in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules like so: hv_vmbus hv_storvsc hv_blkvsc hv_netvsc And updated the…
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