Thanks for your reply. I did run "mount" to check for ro/rw attributes, and it said "rw" as expected. How do you suggest I check the mount options besides running "mount" - checking /etc/mtab? The server is a physical Dell PowerEdge server, and not connected to any remote storage. So it's all locally stored. Output of dump2fs states that the file system is mounted cleanly. Are there anything in particular you suggest I'd investigate further with regards to file system problems? On 2/2/09, Mertens, Bram <mertensb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Did you check if the filesystem(s) were mounted RW? > > Note that you can't always trust the output of mount. > > We ran into a kernel bug on some of our virtual servers a while ago > where a file system became read-only in the event of busy I/O retry or > path failover of the ESX Server's SAN storage (details available at > http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd > =displayKC&externalId=51306) > > Even though mount showed the file system mounted rw the file system was > in fact write-protected as trying to remount it showed: > # mount -o remount,rw / > mount: block device /dev/rootvg/rootlv is write-protected, mounting > read-only > > Considering 2 of your symptoms indicate a problem with the file system > you might want to investigate in this direction. > > HTH > > Bram > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
