On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 01:57:03PM +0200, Jeroen Wunnink wrote:
This usually means the filesystem jumps into read only mode because some fs
errors have occured.
We've had this problem last month with a server, and it ended up that the
harddisk was going bad.
You can try to remount the filesystem first: 'mount -o remount /home' for
example and see if that solves it..
If not, you can try to unmount the filesystem directly if possible (make
sure there's no processes keeping it occupied) and do a e2fsck on it, or
reboot it in single user mode and then fsck all filesystems if it concerns
/ or /boot for example..
It may solve it, but big chance that it'll pop back in read only mode after
a while again..
Advice: back up the system and go swap the harddisk..
Additional advice: get the smartmontools package and run disk selftests
periodically. (smartmontools.sourceforge.net)
Also, depending on your disk requirements, consider moving to
RAID. On