* Re: [gentoo-user] root (/) read-only?
@ 2005-09-27 6:30 99% ` Dirk Heinrichs
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From: Dirk Heinrichs @ 2005-09-27 6:30 UTC (permalink / raw
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Am Dienstag, 27. September 2005 06:58 schrieb ext dave waddelove:
> Hey guys,
>
> Quite often if I leave my computer on for a few hours, I come back and
> try to do something and I find that my system has all of a sudden changed
> from rw to ro on my root partition... Has anyone else experienced this?
Check your filesystem. Linux will remount filesystems ro if it finds any
errors.
> One thing I noticed is that I get an error message upon sstartup about
> not being able to find fsck.xfs upon startup for /dev/hda4 (my root
> partition).
Install it, asap. But before, boot into a LiveCD and fsck.xfs /dev/hda4 from
there.
> could this have anything to do with it? I am running into a
> lot of problems beacuse of this since a lot of programs rely on writing
> tmp files to /tmp on my root partition. A lot of programs freeze or crap
> out and I have to do a hard reboot, which I know will cause a problem one
> of these days....
Make /tmp a seperate filesystem (if you have enough ram, you could use
tmpfs).
HTH...
Dirk
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