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

 

Simon Waters wrote:
> Simon Williams wrote:
>> Hmmm. My cron job is now reporting more errors on almost all of my 
>> filesystems. The other thing is- whenever I run fsck on any system I get 
>> errors, which begs the question: How do you get filesystem errors on a 
>> Linux machine, other than an unclean shutdown or faulty disk?
> 
> Why do you persist in believing it isn't the disk drive failing?

I didn't say I firmly believed that it wasn't failing, but I get the 
aforementioned errors on every disk I have ever fscked and want to know 
why. I'm not convinced that the RAM is completely reliable anyway.


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