From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E81gT-0004LH-Lj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:17:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7OKE0tH031862; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:14:00 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-50-226.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.50.226]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7OK4pjK023137 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:04:52 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FBB818034 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:05:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25828-01-2 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:05:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.1.58] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8ED718031 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:05:56 -0500 (CDT) From: John Jolet To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:06:00 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <1124913594.14865.4.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1124913594.14865.4.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508241506.00437.john@jolet.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: 0f51de7e-d964-4e41-9cfb-7d06399d5e40 X-Archives-Hash: 6f49d3071b5b29b9444d3258443cddf8 sounds like a cron job.... On Wednesday 24 August 2005 14:59, Nick Rout wrote: > For somewhere between 3 days and a week I have been rising to find > that /home has become readonly overnight. > > Basically I have to shut down X, manually kill all processes > accessing /home and then run > > umount /home > mount /home > > which fixes it until tomorrow morning. > > I also tried mount /home -o remount,rw > > but was told that /dev/hdb1 was readonly - but it has the same > permissions as /dev/hda1. > > Any clues as to where to from here? I cannot even seem to isolate what > time this is happening. > -- > Nick Rout -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net john@jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list