Re: rh7.3 filesystem becomes read only after update!?

[Simon Weller <sweller ena com>]

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> 
> 3) Check the harddisks. smartmontools have already been mentioned. 
>    A simple "dd if=/dev/$disk of=/dev/null bs=64k" for all disks is also
>    quite good at finding errors. 


> 4) If no harddisk errors have been found, try to find out what caused
>    the filesystem corruption.
> 
Smartmontools most likely won't work with Hardware RAID unless he's
using a 3ware controller, as the drive needs to have pass-through
ability.

Some other manufacturers have their own utilities (eg LSI's megamon)
that can retrieve SMART information from drives in an array, but other
than that RAID does make SMART more difficult.

- Si

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