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

[Andy Smith <andy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Cheers,
Andy

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