Re: [gentoo-user] / becomes read only

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/5/06, James Colby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: filesystem keeps becoming read only. If it does turnout to be a disk timeout do you have any suggestions as how to fix the problem? Well, it is a very big "if" at this point. It is equally possible that you have an bad block on the drive that

Re: [gentoo-user] / becomes read only

2006-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* James Colby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. I have moved /var to a separate virtual > disk. Hopefully this will give me some clue as to why the root > filesystem keeps becoming read only. If it does turnout to be a disk > timeout do you have any suggestions as how to f

Re: [gentoo-user] / becomes read only

2006-07-05 Thread James Colby
A disk timeout error could cause a filesystem to be remounted read-only. And if /var is on the same disk, you wouldn't necessarily see the errors (since, after all, it is now read-only!). I would start by making /var a separate filesystem if you haven't already. Heck, put it on a different vir

Re: [gentoo-user] / becomes read only

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/5/06, James Colby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a Gentoo install running inside of a vmware ESX server virtual machine. I am having a very strange issue though. Every few days the root filesystem will become read only and the only way that I can fix it is to reboot or power down the v

[gentoo-user] / becomes read only

2006-07-05 Thread James Colby
List members - I have a Gentoo install running inside of a vmware ESX server virtual machine. I am having a very strange issue though. Every few days the root filesystem will become read only and the only way that I can fix it is to reboot or power down the virual machine. Does anyone have an