filesystem eventually becomes read-only

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 08:54, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 05:06, Noah <noah-list at enabled.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an ubuntu server that its file system eventually claims to be
> > readonly and not sure why that happens?  The drives are not initially
> > mounted read only.   Something changes over time to make my root
> > partition read-only and not sure how that happens.
>
> Possibly you have a failing disc.  If you look in syslog or use
> journalctl you will probably see errors occurring before it is set to
> readonly.
>
> Also you could try the Disks utility where you can look at the SMART status.

However, Ralf's suggestion may well be the right one.

Coln