Filesystem

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 26 May 2006, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> Hi all
>
>   Got a small problem here, figure some of you gurus might have the
> quick answer. Using FC4 ext3 system, but after booting into the system;
> after a few days, my home directory thinks it is read only file system.
> If I reboot the system, all is good for a while.
>
> /etc/mtab says the partition is mounter properly and is rw,
> the /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/hdb3  /swdev          ext3 defaults  1 2
> /dev/hdb1  /home/rick      ext3 defaults  1 2   turns ro !rw later
> /dev/hdb2  /home/rick/Mail ext3 defaults  1 2
> /dev/sda7  /data2          ext3 defaults  1 2
> /dev/sda8  /backup         ext3 defaults  1 2
>
> /etc/mtab:
> /dev/hdb3 /swdev ext3 rw 0 0
> /dev/hdb1 /home/rick ext3 rw 0 0
> /dev/hdb2 /home/rick/Mail ext3 rw 0 0
> /dev/sda7 /data2 ext3 rw 0 0
>
> Any ideas as to what is happening, any fixes?

Failing/bad disk perhaps?  Have you checked dmesg and messages for errors?
Have you manually fscked the partition?

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