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Operating Systems Linux root filesystem goes readonly Post 302562591 by robo on Friday 7th of October 2011 12:00:25 PM

10-07-2011

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root filesystem goes readonly

I see this when tried to create a dir using root

fstab entries are pretty normal
tried to remount with rw but it is still the same

Code:

block device /dev/sda2 is write-protected

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fstab entry

Code:

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1

dmesg

Code:

ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
audit(1317999399.316:2): user pid=16747 uid=0 auid=4294967295 msg='avc:  0 AV en                 tries and 0/512 buckets used, longest chain length 0
'
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0

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also treid

Code:

mount -o remount,rw /

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release

Code:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4)

uname -a

Code:

Linux hostname 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:27:17 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

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