rh7.3 filesystem becomes read only after update!?

[Steffen Grunewald]

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)

Cheers,
 Steffen

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