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#1 Thu, 2017-08-10 16:41

misterunknown

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Hi all,

I'm quite new to alpine linux, but used linux since a while now. At the moment I run alpine as an LXC container on a Debian Jessie host system. I try to mount a file system in a file, but get the error "permission denied" – and I don't know why. I performed the following steps:

$ uname -a
Linux alpine 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u2 (2017-06-26) x86_64 Linux
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=htdocs.fs bs=1M count=100
[...]
$ mkfs.ext4 htdocs.fs
[...]
$ mkdir mnt
$ mount -t ext4 htdocs.fs mnt/
mount: permission denied (are you root?)

To find out, what goes wrong I traced the command:

$ strace mount -t ext4 htdocs.fs mnt/
execve("/bin/mount", ["mount", "-t", "ext4", "htdocs.fs", "mnt/"], 0x7ffd00b9d640 /* 30 vars */) = 0
arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7fc0fbf4bb48) = 0
set_tid_address(0x7fc0fbf4bb80)         = 8235
mprotect(0x7fc0fbf48000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x55e2eadb8000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
execve("/bin/busybox", ["/bin/busybox", "mount", "-t", "ext4", "htdocs.fs", "mnt/"], 0x7fffdf964a78 /* 30 vars */) = 0
arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7fb9a0b3fb48) = 0
set_tid_address(0x7fb9a0b3fb80)         = 8235
mprotect(0x7fb9a0b3c000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x556a479bb000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0
getuid()                                = 0
getuid()                                = 0
geteuid()                               = 0
stat("htdocs.fs", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=104857600, ...}) = 0
getcwd("/root", 192)                    = 6
open("/root/htdocs.fs", O_RDWR)         = 3
stat("/dev/loop0", 0x7ffdeeeff8f8)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mknod("/dev/loop0", S_IFBLK|0644, makedev(7, 0)) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
close(3)                                = 0
write(2, "mount: permission denied (are yo"..., 41mount: permission denied (are you root?)
) = 41
exit_group(1)                           = ?
+++ exited with 1 +++

Unfortunately I don't know why the mknod syscall fails. All commands were executed as root. Thank you for some hints.

Cheers,
Marco