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SillyPants
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 08, 2003 6:00 am    Post subject: 'Read-only file system' Reply with quote

After about 5 minutes, one of my drives starts saying it's read-only. I can remount it, and it goes back to being read-write for about 5 minutes, then goes back to being read-only. Does anyone know why this would be the case?
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 08, 2003 11:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

what is in /etc/fstab and do you have any messages in the logs?
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 2:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The faulty drive is my WD400BB (/dev/hdb). Here's my fstab:
Code:
# Copyright 1999-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.7 2002/05/12 21:48:18 azarah Exp $

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# noatime turns of atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency).  It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.

# <fs>                  <mountpoint>    <type>          <opts>                  <dump/pass>

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/sda1               /boot           ext3            noauto,noatime          1 1
/dev/sda3               /               ext3            noatime                 0 0
/dev/sda2               none            swap            sw                      0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0      /mnt/dvd        auto            user,noauto,ro          0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1      /mnt/cdrom      auto            user,noauto,ro          0 0
/dev/hda1               /mnt/wd800      ext3            defaults                0 0
/dev/hdb1               /mnt/wd400      ext3            defaults,rw             0 0
/mnt/wd800/home         /home           none            defaults,bind           0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy     ext2            noauto                  0 0
proc                    /proc           proc            defaults                0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). Adding the following
# line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will use almost no
#  memory if not populated with files)

#tmpfs                  /dev/shm        tmpfs           defaults                0 0
I wasn't sure which logs to look at, but in /var/log/kernel I have a few of these:
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Jun  8 01:58:45 [kernel] EXT3-fs warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended
Jun  8 01:58:45 [kernel] EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,65), internal journal
Jun  8 01:58:45 [kernel] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jun  8 02:39:41 [kernel] hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun  8 02:39:41 [kernel] ext3_new_block: aborting transaction: Journal has aborted in __ext3_journal_get_undo_access<2>EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65$
Jun  8 02:39:41 [kernel] ext3_abort called.
which may be relevant?

--Frank
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah from what's in the log I'd go with fsck'ing the drive and see if that helps first.
fstab looks fine tho. :)
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 9:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fsck gave some errors. Backed up my data and re-formatted the drive. ow it's been running for about 24 hours and no problems. Must have been cosmic radiation randomly twiddling the all-important 'function properly' bit.

thanks
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