Gnome making hard drive read-only

[Chris]

On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 13:56 +0100, Mark C wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I mount my home directory on a separate partition, and
> I've noticed this strange bug with Gnome 2.8, at times, I cannot pin 
> point it down, but it makes my partition read-only, it seems to only do 
> it when I drag and drop things, for example it happens sometimes when I 
> drag files/folders to the cd burner and it happened just now when I used 
> the search facility to find some html files, I tried to drag what it 
> found from the search window to my desktop and it failed.

I don't know if this will help any but if the partition is ext2/3 and
the "errors=remount-ro" option is set as it normally is then it could
mean your drive is getting errors and the file-system is remounting
itself read-only as to prevent further damage.  Could be a failing drive
or some other issue related to the hardware.

Just something to consider anyway.

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// Chris