On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:36:34PM +0530, Balu manyam wrote: > hey guys -- one of my rhel4 device's ext3 filesystem went into read only > state -- i could see the following errors during the same time from syslog > -- kernel version 2.6.9-67 -- does this ring a bell with anyone ? > ------------------------- > kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-8): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already > cleared for block 254146 Your filesystem was corrupted, and so e2fsprogs remounted it read-only to prevent further damage that might lead to data loss. Unmount it, and run e2fsck to fix the filesystem corruption. If this happens again, you may want to check your hardware; a bad or crimped hard drive cable, or a failing memory module can lead to on-disk filesystem corruption. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
