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could you boot from a live cd and fsck it from there? On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 13:50 +0100, Simon Williams wrote: > 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