Re: /var keeps going read-only
From: Jeff (Im.so.Huckin.Fappy_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 04/21/05
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:08:21 -0600
Jeff wrote:
> Paul Colquhoun wrote:
>
>> Some people have suggested a suspect controller.
>
>
> I'm really hoping it doesn't turn out to be this...Tyan motherboards
> have been good to me over the years, but I had to replace mine a year
> ago due to a bad power connection, and if I lose another one now to a
> bad IDE controller, my faith in them will be seriosly shaken
>
>> Is the second controller available? It might pay to move the disk from
>> hdb to hdc or hdd (don't forget to adjust /etc/fstab).
>
>
> I'll also have to edit grub.conf since this is the boot drive (long
> story why I boot of hdb instead of hda). I could try this as an easier
> experiment...can anyone think of any other things I'll need to edit to
> be sure I get up and running if I boot off of hdb instead of hdb?
A few thoughts I'm hoping for feedback on.
I've eliminated the disk as being bad...it's been replaced. So now if
it's a hardware issue, its either the IDE controller on the MB, or it's
a bad cable. So I'm going to try and replace the cable with a new one
and see if that helps.
But if it's bad hardware, why would it always impact /var? /var is the
first logical partition, as the following shows:
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 8189.384 primary ext3 boot
2 8189.385 68189.963 primary ext3
3 68189.963 128190.542 primary ext3
4 128190.542 239366.931 extended lba
5 128190.573 136379.926 logical ext3
6 136379.958 140474.619 logical linux-swap
7 140474.650 156327.824 logical ext3
8 156327.855 239366.931 logical ext3
(parted)
/dev/hdb7 on / type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hdb2 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hdb3 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hdb5 on /var type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hdb8 on /music type ext3 (rw)
Not being a hardware expert, it seems odd it would always make /var
read-only. Why no other partition?
IAC, I'll pick up a new cable when I go to town today. If that doesn't
work, I'll leave hda on the suspect IDE controller, since hda has the
MBR on it. I can then actually move hdb off the MB completely, to one
of my PCI/133 cards that control my other hard drives, and try and boot
from there, or I can shuffle things around and boot from the secondary
IDE channel on the MB. Is there a reason to try the onboard IDE rather
than an PCI card? Realistically, the onboard is only ATA-100, and the
Promise card is ATA-133, so I might get better performance off of the
Promise card, since the disk supports 133.
Thanks to everyone who has been following this saga and helping. All
input welcomed.
~Jeff
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