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Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Simon, > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 12:36:25AM +0100, Simon Williams wrote: >> It wasn't long before I discovered that the cause of the problem was >> that I could not write to the root filesystem. >> I've checked permissions (and I'm root anyway), mount shows rw option, >> df shows plenty of free space. > > Have you had a look through the logs and the output of "dmesg"? > Filesystems will often remount themselves read-only in response to > filesystem corruption and/or disk IO errors. fsck.ext3 -n /dev/hda1 shows a whole bunch of errors. Of course the question is- how do I fix the root filesystem when all I have is ssh access? And I'm sure that the samba log files having filenames of ever increasing length isn't helping- for some reason smbd.log and nmbd.log are not being handled correctly by syslog, and end up with names like smb.log.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 (these get quite long- I have to delete them every so often). Any ideas? Thanks Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html