[lug] Read-only weirdness

Hugh Brown hugh at math.byu.edu
Sat Jul 15 21:32:16 MDT 2006


> > >This has been happening occasionally after the drive has been mounted several
> > >weeks.  I have to unmount it and remount it and it works fine again.  It's a
> > >pain though because it kills my automated nightly script when it hits the
> > >read-only problem.
> > >
> 
> The only time I've encountered this type of behavior is when the drive
> is getting ready to go south for the winter. Are you getting error
> messages in /var/log/messages? Even if drive errors aren't apparent, I
> would recommend a backup muy pronto.
> 


Ditto.  Just replaced a drive that was doing similar sorts of things.

Hugh




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