hi,

I recently installed Fedora. I was using it for a few days
and it was fine. Then all of a sudden, the file system
becomes read-only automatically. When I tried to touch
a file, it says:

[root@machine root]# touch abc
touch: cannot touch `abc': Read-only file system

So I rebooted, and the file system turns back to read-
write. But an hour or so later, it becomes read-only
again.

do I have a virus? Tomcat, MySQL and other stuff are
running and these ports are reachable externally.

or do I just have a bad hard drive? Have anyone else here
seen this? Or am I just not setting certain things correctly,
e.g. fstab and mtab.


Thanks,
Jorge

well...you shouldn't edit mtab, that file is keeping track of all mounted fs.
and your fstab should be ok too, as all is ok after a reboot.

to switch a filesystem from r/w to ro it should be remounted. ( but how ? )
this change should be reflected in the mtab however.
check that file after a reboot and again after the perm. change occured.
any difference ?

egag