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Re: [LUG] Root device has become read only?!!

 

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
>
>   
A correctly configured logrotate should take care of that last problem
for you..

As for the first one... IP KVM ?

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