On Sunday 13 January 2002 02.06, admin POP Nostracom wrote:
Hi
we have a fairly serious problem. Our server running SuSe 7.1 (Kernel 2.2.29) will not boot normally. It boots in single user mode just fine and we can see all of the data with seems to be intact.
The problem is that the root partition "/" is reported as being "rw" when with view the listing generated from the mount command, but in reality is read-only.
When we try to execute any application or daemon that requires write access to logs in this partition, they bomb out reporting "Read-Only file system".
We cannont unmount anything. When we execute the umount command the operation appears to work but the partition/volume does not unmount and is still visible in the listing generated by the mount command. We cannot therefore perform a "reiserfsck" as we had hoped in an attempt to solve the problem.
reiserfsck should be runnable on a mounted, read-only filesystem. Have you tried simply mount -o remount,rw / That should put the filesystem in readonly mode. regards Anders