Re: disk being mounted readonly, fsck thinks things are fine.

[Sam Roberts <sam@cogent.ca>]

Quoting Eugene Tsyrklevich <eugene@securityarchitects.com>, who wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:11:49PM -0400, Sam Roberts wrote:
> > My drive suddenly started getting mounted readonly, with a warning
> > that I should check the filesystem. But I can't check the filesystem,
> 
> why not?

>From dmesg (there was more during boot, something about being in
fast mode?):

WARNING: / was not properly unmounted
WARNING: r/w mount of / denied. Filesystem is not clean - runs fsck.

# fsck /
** /dev/rwd0a (NO WRITE)
** ... <- lists 5 phases, but no errors or warnings
10319 files, 141696 used, 83903 free (727 frags, 10397 blocks, 0.3% fragmentation)
#

So, fsck doesn't seem to think anything is wrong, I thought it
might have been because the disk was ro, but in retrospect that
seems dumb. Why isn't finding anything wrong?

Using your suggested mount command (thanks) I get:

# mount -o rw /
WARNING: R/W mount of / denied. Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
mount_ffs: /dev/wdoa on /: Operation not permitted
#

I don't have a clue whats going on here.

Sam

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Sam Roberts (sam@cogent.ca), Cogent Real-Time Systems (www.cogent.ca)