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

 

What init state is the server in ?

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 01:47 +0000, 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 


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