Disk suddenly read-only
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Jan 21 14:53:11 UTC 2008
ubuntu at acrasis.net wrote:
> Why might a disk suddenly become read-only? I have a 7.04 AMD64 server
> with two disks, /dev/sd{a,b}. The trouble is on sda which has
> partitions for /var and /boot. I can 'ls' the contents of these, but:
...
>
> What happened? (How) can it be fixed?
Disk errors. fsck the /var filesystem. (I'm not sure from the error
whether /boot is the same - it doesn't _say_ it's read only).
I know this happens with ext3 systems, I'm not certain about other
filesystems.
--
derek
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