EXT3-fs error

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

de Selby [2004-10-06 21:17 -0400]:
> EXT3-fs error (device hda1) in start-transmission: Readonly filesystem

Hmm, unless you deliberately mounted your partition read-only (but
then you wouldn't ask): ext3 offers the possibility to remount a file
system read-only as soon as the file system gets corrupted. I'm not
using ext3 for myself, but it can very well be that this (sensible)
feature is activated by default.

In almost all cases, the cause for file system corruption is a faulty
hard disks. Of course it could also be a bug in the ext3 driver, but
together with his predecessor ext2 this file system exists for so long
and has proben so rock solid that this is highly unprobable.

Can you boot into another Linux installation, or a life-CD (even the
install CD should work if you switch to the second text console right
before the partitioning stage)? Then you can do

  fsck.ext3 /dev/hda1

to see whether and how severe your file system is actually corrupted.

If it is a hardware problem, reinstallation will obviously not work.

Good luck!

Martin

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