Gnome making hard drive read-only

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 06:00:00PM +0100, Mark C wrote:

> Chris wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> This is only added to the root partition, /dev/hda1, my home partition 
> /dev/hda10 is mounted with just 'defaults'.
> 
> Even after googling, I still cannot find any reason why this may be 
> happening, it's very intermittent, I just done the same Search as 
> earlier and this time it works great. I only really started getting 
> these errors in Gnome 2.8, so it would seem Gnome related.

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 - mdz