[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora Core system Read Only

[Wayne Walker]

mount -o remount,rw /


On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 01:35:42PM -0600, Terry Henderson wrote:
> A friend's computer has Core1 and had filesystem errors this morning.  He ran:
>    fsck -y /dev/hda2
> and seemed to have fixed it, BUT:  Now it mounts the whole filesystem
> read-only and so it's impossible to do anything,much at all with it.
> I went over to look at it, (didn't have much time there, but):
> I found that I could mount my thunbdrive rw, so I did, and quickly
> captured some info that might give us some clues:
> ==============================================
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             19251804   7624604  10649244  42% /
> /dev/hda1               101086     20180     75687  22% /boot
> none                    127992         0    127992   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hdb1             19541504   4002080  15539424  21% /mnt/oldComputer
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 507 MB, 507322880 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 983 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1             1       983    495313+   6  FAT16
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20404101120 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2480 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux
> /dev/hda2            14      2448  19559137+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda3          2449      2480    257040   82  Linux swap
> 
> Disk /dev/hdb: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdb1   *         1      2434  19551073+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> total 0
> [root at localhost root]# ls -l /var/lock/subystem
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 apmd
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 iptables
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 kudzu
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 netfs
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 network
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 nfslock
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 portmap
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 random
> -rw-------  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 syslog
> [root at localhost root]# mount
> /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
> /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/oldComputer type vfat (rw)
> Script started on Wed 24 Jan 2007 10:46:33 AM CST
> [root at localhost root]# touch testfile
> touch: cannot touch `testfile': Read-only file system
> [root at localhost root]# touch /home/dell/testfile
> touch: cannot touch `/home/dell/testfile': Read-only file system
> =========================================
> Also;  I saw something during boot up that indicated that ext3
> journaling was failing, or... well, I think that may be because the
> filesystem is being mounted read-only.  So, does anyone have a clue as
> to what may have happened, and / or, what to do about it?
> 
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