On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 07:01:22PM +0100, john doe wrote: > Debians, > > I'm seeing some alarming MSGs (E.G: ' blk_update_request: I/O error, dev > sda, sector N') in my server's log. > As it's read-only, I can not install smartmontools to investigate further. > > This server is to be used until a new server is ready, is there anything > that I can do to keep it running? > > Any other ideas is welcome! > > -- > John Doe >
Run, don't walk, to another computer and order new disks and shut this one down immediately. If the file system has gone read only because of errors, you need to shut it down NOW, maybe, and hope that you can recover data when it boots up. Good luck, but it's probably too late. Andy Cater
