Re: please help my root fs is read only

[Christopher McCrory <chrismcc pricegrabber com>]

Hello...

On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 08:38 -0700, Rob wrote:
> I have no idea what happned.  When I checked my mail this morning I
> got an error deleting a message so I wen't to the server and
> discovered the root fs was somehow readonly.  I tried to remount it
> and it said it was a read only device. I rebooted, when grub came up I
> noticed "ro" in the options. I removed that

You should put it back.


>  and it still booted read only. I have no idea what to do. Can anyone
> give me some advice? 
> 

Most likely the hard drive is going bad.

IIRC, If you kick out enough disk errors, the fs gets mounted read-only.




> Thanks
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