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The whole file system went read only. I did a reboot (shutdown -r now). But fedora did not reboot normally but went into this other run level. The message was that it appeared to have been shutdown incorrectly (I used shutdown -r now) and I should run fsck. fsck found a number of errors which it fixed. Everything is working fine now, but I don't know why the whole file system went read only. Previous to this problem I had mounted a Windows 2000 drive using, mount -t smbfs ...., but had mis-typed the switches to the command, but that was the previous day, and I don't think that would affected it and caused the errors. On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:10:51 +0100, "Simon Waters" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Keasley wrote: | | I suspect the first thing you should do is back up the data in your | ~ asap, and run fsck on that partition, it might be you harddrive | going bad, or just having too many errors. | | Otherwise it might just be a problem in /etc/fstab or a permissions | issue, better to be safe than sorry though, eh? The usual cause is not reading the boot messages carefully enough ;) The root partition is mounted read-only, then remounted if all is well. I have had Redhat pause during boot, and me continue without properly following the instructions on screen, resulting in a read-only partition. This also happens if you have forgot the root passwd and need to hack the shadow file, as some of the emergency boots drop you in a root shell with the root disk read only - remount is your friend (or just boot from a Live CD which is probably easier). Of course your comments on fsck apply. This usually happens if the disk has failed fsck, and needs some manual intervention, which might be a bad disk, or poorly timed hitting of the off button. Also some filesystems these days have a quick journal replay, and a proper fsck which actually checks things, make sure you get a proper check. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBUc46GFXfHI9FVgYRAsh4AJ0avm4PpPAoxzuPlqmPwsuCk2kSXQCfWJ7R dCCTflM7t4WzIeFbXSbmeFk= =xGeT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
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