read-only file system

djoverho · 05-02-2004, 04:14 PM

Anyone ever had "Read-only File system" come up? We have this on one of our machines and cannot seem to get it out of read only...so we are unable to do any edits, restarts, etc...is there some sort of command that will overwrite this setting? Thanks in advance.

alveric · 05-02-2004, 04:45 PM

The only way to change this is to remount the partition, forcing "rw" option. What does your fstab say about that partition ?

FloFri · 05-02-2004, 04:46 PM

Try the following as root:

mount -o remount,rw /

then you should be able to write and so you can change /etc/fstab to let linux mout it read-write next time.

djoverho · 05-02-2004, 04:47 PM

This is what it has:

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,usrquota 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

What command should I run? Thanks

djoverho · 05-02-2004, 04:48 PM

this is what I get:

[/]# mount -o remount,rw /
mount: block device /dev/hda2 is write-protected, mounting read-only

orange400 · 05-04-2004, 07:37 PM

It's not a jumper on your hard drive is it? And you aren't using a foreign FS right?

znake · 05-24-2004, 04:54 AM

I have just the same problem. I can't even make any directories. I always get that read-only file system - error.

This problem appeared when i configured samba to network my windows and linux computers. Might that be some sort of reason why i get error like that?

I have also thought if i my hard disk is broken. I had some sort of problems with one part of my hard disk when i had XP, but now i havent got any problems before this appeared.

Thanx for help, i really need it