On 8/23/05, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:55:41AM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have this problem which comes without warning on my box, it seems "/" gets > > remounted (without any warning, not reason) as read only. I can use the box > > without real big problems, until something needs to write to the disk (for > > example konqueror gets a file from the web or something as silly as that). > > > > I reboot, and the next thing I see is that / is not clean, and I need to run > > "fsck -y", which takes a long time since my root-fs is quite large (30GB). > > Is it ext2? Bad corruptions on reiserfs give somewhat similar errors but > with a different message. > > The init scripts do that.
I think he ment that in the middle of work at multi-user level his root partition gets re-mounted read-only. Not at boot time. > > > > > I tried looking into dmeg a few times, but I did not find anything wierd. > > Right. Because it's in userland. Dmesg read the "kernel ring buffer" (quoting dmesg(8)). Since I suppose this doesn't constitute disk writing it should be able to do its work. BTW - Diego - if you execute fsck then don't forget to check /lost+found. Cheers, --Amos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
