On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]>wrote:

> > *[sudo] password for XXX:*
> > *sudo: unable to open /var/db/sudo/XXX/1: Read-only file system*
> > **
> > *
> >
> > touch test.txt
> >
> > touch: cannot touch `test.txt': >Read-only file system
>
> This may due to some error on filesystem.
>
> Backup all data and recreate filesystem using mkfs utilities.
>
>
The above is not a good idea.  Sometimes the problem may be caused due to
insufficient space in the / filesystem.  First check for free space using
'df -h' and if possible try tune2fs to regain the 5% reserved space used by
the filesystem and reboot it to see if there is space in the filesystem.

tune2fs -m 0 /dev/<partition>

S. Baskar
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