Re: /var becomes read-only every day

From: Hans Ekbrand <hans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:38:39 +0100

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:06:23PM -0500, Chris Howie wrote:
> Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> > Every day /var (which is on its own partition) becomes read-only.
>
> If /var is on a separate partition and is mounted with '-o errors=remount-ro'
> then check dmesg and see if some error is triggering the remount.

That showed errors on that partition. Guess my harddisk is dying...

Thanks for the hint!

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Note that I use Debian version 3.1
Linux samir 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Tue Aug 16 12:46:35 UTC 2005 i586 GNU/Linux
Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
Q. Why is top posting bad?

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