Read Only

Greetings:

I've been using external USB hard drives on RHEL for more than a
year. But this condition only happens on one system. I make ext3
filesystems on the devices (I have more than one here). I can mount them
fine and write to them fine. But after a time period of inactivity, the
drives spin down for power savings. When they wake back up, the file
systems become READ ONLY. A simple umount and mount is all that's needed to
remedy this, but I can't always do that in some automated processes.

Has anyone else seen this behavior? The mount points are in the
standard /media directory.

Scully


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