[NTLUG:Discuss] ro filesys

[Robert Citek]

On Aug 26, 2005, at 8:03 PM, ./aal wrote:
> I have been trying to copy a few directories from ntfs to vfat.
> I started to copy and all was well till I chose to stop it during  
> copy.
> When I try to restart the copy I get the error that this is a read  
> only
> file sys. I cannot make any changes to this partition.
>
> why would it have changed like this?
> How can I fix it?

What do the logs say?  /var/log/messages or dmesg.  I've seen this  
happen a couple of times.  One time when a disk was going bad.   
Another when the kernel got a bit confused (bad driver?).  The fix  
for the former: got the data off and put in a new disk.  The latter  
was fixed by a simple reboot.

Regards,
- Robert
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