Re: remounted read-only

2006-03-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
Eric Persson wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: If that's the cause (and I agree that it almost certainly is), then in means your drive is encountering errors. What kind of errors, any errors? Mostly bad spots in the magnetization layer. All harddrives have these because it is technically impossi

Re: remounted read-only

2006-03-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:41:10PM +0100, Eric Persson wrote: > I have a server that repeatedly remounts its / harddisk readonly, > probably caused by the errors=remount-ro in fstab. If that's the cause (and I agree that it almost certainly is), then in means your drive is encountering errors.

Re: remounted read-only

2006-03-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:41:10 +0100 Eric Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server that repeatedly remounts its / harddisk readonly, > probably caused by the errors=remount-ro in fstab. I read the following > about it on the web: ><> > Is it a sign of starting to failing hard

Re: remounted read-only

2006-03-13 Thread Eric Persson
Dave Sherohman wrote: If that's the cause (and I agree that it almost certainly is), then in means your drive is encountering errors. What kind of errors, any errors? Thunder-: when you get { MessagesLikeThisFromYourHardDrive } Thunder-: it either means { TheDriverIsScrewy } or { YourDriv