Root Filesystem (/) Mounts as Read-only
 

Can someone tell me what did I do to my filesystem, and how I can get it back?

I am configuring a RHEL5 system and I had some file system problems, including superblock errors. I followed a correction found here Surviving Filesystem Failures

After many reboots and fsck executions, it still will not mount on boot to read-write. However now it will let me remount to read-write after boot.

My /etc/fstab looks like:

Running the command cut /proc/mounts -f 2,3,4 -d " " gives me:
Notice that the rootfs is mounted rw, but the next one is ro.

Doing df -h gives me:
Notice that the /dev/sda3 and the /devVolGroup00/LogVol00 have the same information, which is suspicious. Also, I am missing my other Logical volumes. (They are mounted but they don't show up unless I do a df -h /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02). I have a another RHEL5 box with a similar setup and these volumes are listed with a simple df -h.

Anybody have any ideas on what's going on?

Thanks for any advice,

Eric

Hi eric. Your post is very complete. If all first posts here were like yours.

This possibility is a long shot, but do you have hal working?
Can you reboot and init on runlevel 3 without hal and check again.

You can change your default runlevel by edit the default /etc/inittab

Thanks, I appreciate for your response. I set to runlevel 3 and rebooted, haldaemon off and I get the same problem.

I also tried booting to single user and got an error that /usr/bin/id not found. I am trying other things. I am also wondering if I made a mistake in setting the superblock.