On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:13:41 -0400 Matt Nordhoff wrote: > On 08/24/05 15:59, Nick Rout wrote: > > For somewhere between 3 days and a week I have been rising to find > > that /home has become readonly overnight. > > > > Basically I have to shut down X, manually kill all processes > > accessing /home and then run > > > > umount /home > > mount /home > > > > which fixes it until tomorrow morning. > > > > I also tried mount /home -o remount,rw > > > > but was told that /dev/hdb1 was readonly - but it has the same > > permissions as /dev/hda1. > > > > Any clues as to where to from here? I cannot even seem to isolate what > > time this is happening. > > Filesystem errors, maybe? That's why I was always getting read-only > partitions... Run fsck on it.
>From a log investigation you might be right. Bugger, it is a newish disk too. Better dig out the receipt and get ready to ask for a replacement. After backing up the 110G on the darned thing. Time to dump some old files methinks! > > -- > Replace the point in my email address with a period to reply. ;-) > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
