problem with Fedora Core 4

pavangogineni · 11-18-2006, 11:32 PM

Hi all,

I am using Fedora Core 4 installed on HP Proliant ML 530 server.
It is working fine. But some times I dont know what happens suddenly one of my harddisk mounted on /var goes into read-only mode and some services like postgres will not work.
Once I re-insert the disk into the machine it will again work fine.

I can't understand where the problem is... whether it is with the disk(H/W) or with the OS (S/W).

Can any one help me.....

Thanks

unSpawn · 11-19-2006, 04:43 PM

Remounting disks ro is a way for the kernel to say it detected an error (man tune2fs, error-behavior).
You better query the system for problems (syslog, smart, disk info) when this happens to determine the problem.
You could for instance install Monit to (run an external script and) alert you when a disk gets remounted ro.