[lug] Read-only filesystem

[Jeff Schroeder]

Gary wrote:

> When copying data to one of the disks I
> will eventually get an error that says in part "cannot create regular
> file" "read-only file system."

If there's a hardware failure in the hard drive, the kernel will 
sometimes instruct 'mount' to change the filesystem to read-only in 
order to prevent additional damage.  This might be what's happening; 
check your kernel logs or even 'dmesg' to see if you're getting reports 
of bad sectors or something along those lines.

HTH,
Jeff
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