# Node-red-contrib-persist on DietPi : EACCES: permission denied, open '/root/data/persistence.json'

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**Created:** [24 June 2020 19:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-persist-on-dietpi-eacces-permission-denied-open-root-data-persistence-json/28911 "2020-06-24T19:09:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![devifast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@devifast](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/devifast)\
**Post date:** [7 July 2020 11:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-persist-on-dietpi-eacces-permission-denied-open-root-data-persistence-json/28911/46 "2020-07-07T11:54:23Z")

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Now another problem. I make file named persistence.json with folowing comand:  
touch persistence.json  
but this error is displayed  
"/mnt/dietpi\_userdata/node-red/persistence.json: Unexpected end of JSON input"

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