Remount /home rw when it's errored to ro

[Aaron Rainbolt]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 10:20 PM MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 7:40 PM Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2022-07-18 at 18:37 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> > > How do I do this?
> > >
> > > My /home keeps bouncing into ro mode - how do I reset it to rw?
> >
> > In general:
> >
> > sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/whatever /home
> >
> I thought that might be it, too, but:
>
> 20:16 [admar at marbase:~] $ sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdb1 /home
> mount: /home: cannot remount /dev/sdb1 read-write, is write-protected.

If the device itself has gone into read-only mode, that is a sure
indication that the drive has failed (unless I'm missing something).
If an SSD is unable to be written to safely any longer, it will put
itself into read-only mode so that you can evacuate your data off of
the drive before it dies.

> > But if it is dropping into RO, that means errors are happening. Doom
> > approacheth.
> >
> Yes, and a new drive - Thursday.  I also contacted Patriot since it's
> less than 6 months old and should never fail that fast. Hopefully they
> will replace it under warranty.
>
> Thanks!

They had better replace it! If the warranty is going to cover
anything, this would be it.

If there's any way for you to get your data off the drive in the mean
time, I'd do it. Leaving your data on a dying drive is sort of like
leaving your laptop outside just before a thunderstorm.

Sorry this is happening.