Read only rootfs after reiserfsck

Read only rootfs after reiserfsck

[Paolo Azzaroli]

Dear Sir,
My Linux box has a distro SuSE 8.1, and its HD has
1 swap partition, 3 reiserfs partitions, apart from a NTFS partition(where
resides Win2K).
Some days ago the Linux box  filesystem had triubles, maybe because of not
correct shutdown.
After then I repaired the fs (reiserfsck --check etc . . . ); the check
operation reported successfull.
But when booting the Linux box, the linux root partitions is "read-only";
the contents of /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts
are different. I can mount the root partition (mount -n -o remount,rw
/dev/hda3), but
attempt to mount/umount other partitions are frustated by messages as
"already mounted or busy"/ "not mounted".

Something is wrong with reiserfsck ?
After reiserfsck should I  perform some other actions for repairing the fs
and leave it "read-write"  ?
Or there is some trouble with the mount command?

Best Regards

Paolo Azzaroli

Re: Read only rootfs after reiserfsck

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Paolo Azzaroli wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> My Linux box has a distro SuSE 8.1, and its HD has
> 1 swap partition, 3 reiserfs partitions, apart from a NTFS partition(where
> resides Win2K).
> Some days ago the Linux box  filesystem had triubles, maybe because of not
> correct shutdown.
> After then I repaired the fs (reiserfsck --check etc . . . ); the check
> operation reported successfull.
> But when booting the Linux box, the linux root partitions is "read-only";
> the contents of /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts
> are different. I can mount the root partition (mount -n -o remount,rw
> /dev/hda3), but
> attempt to mount/umount other partitions are frustated by messages as
> "already mounted or busy"/ "not mounted".

Delete all lines in /etc/mtab which reference filesystems other than your
root partition. That should fix it.


HTH,
Carl-Daniel

Re: Read only rootfs after reiserfsck

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Can anyone else shed some light on the issue?

Thanks,
Carl-Daniel


Paolo Azzaroli wrote:
> Dear Sir:, I apreciated Your suggestion, I tried it,  but it doesn't
> fix my problem.
> Anyway, many thank for your kindly attention
> Paolo Azzaroli
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger" <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net>
> To: "Paolo Azzaroli" <paoloazzaroli@libero.it>
> Cc: <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 9:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Read only rootfs after reiserfsck
> 
> 
> 
>> Paolo Azzaroli wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear Sir, My Linux box has a distro SuSE 8.1, and its HD has 1 swap
>>> partition, 3 reiserfs partitions, apart from a NTFS partition (where
>>> resides Win2K).
>>> Some days ago the Linux box  filesystem had triubles, maybe because
>>> of not correct shutdown.
>>> After then I repaired the fs (reiserfsck --check etc . . . ); the
>>> check operation reported successfull.
>>> But when booting the Linux box, the linux root partitions is 
>>> "read-only"; the contents of /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are
>>> different. I can mount the root partition (mount -n -o remount,rw 
>>> /dev/hda3), but attempt to mount/umount other partitions are
>>> frustated by messages as "already mounted or busy"/ "not mounted".
>> 
>> Delete all lines in /etc/mtab which reference filesystems other than
>> your root partition. That should fix it.

Re: Read only rootfs after reiserfsck

[Ookhoi]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote (ao):
> Can anyone else shed some light on the issue?

What is in /etc/fstab, and what does 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' say?


> Paolo Azzaroli wrote:
> > Dear Sir:, I apreciated Your suggestion, I tried it,  but it doesn't
> > fix my problem.
> > Anyway, many thank for your kindly attention
> > Paolo Azzaroli
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger" <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net>
> > To: "Paolo Azzaroli" <paoloazzaroli@libero.it>
> > Cc: <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 9:47 PM
> > Subject: Re: Read only rootfs after reiserfsck
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> Paolo Azzaroli wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Dear Sir, My Linux box has a distro SuSE 8.1, and its HD has 1 swap
> >>> partition, 3 reiserfs partitions, apart from a NTFS partition (where
> >>> resides Win2K).
> >>> Some days ago the Linux box  filesystem had triubles, maybe because
> >>> of not correct shutdown.
> >>> After then I repaired the fs (reiserfsck --check etc . . . ); the
> >>> check operation reported successfull.
> >>> But when booting the Linux box, the linux root partitions is 
> >>> "read-only"; the contents of /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are
> >>> different. I can mount the root partition (mount -n -o remount,rw 
> >>> /dev/hda3), but attempt to mount/umount other partitions are
> >>> frustated by messages as "already mounted or busy"/ "not mounted".
> >> 
> >> Delete all lines in /etc/mtab which reference filesystems other than
> >> your root partition. That should fix it.

Re: Read only rootfs after reiserfsck

[Christian Kujau]

> Paolo Azzaroli wrote:
 >
>>>Delete all lines in /etc/mtab which reference filesystems other than
>>>your root partition. That should fix it.
> 
>>Dear Sir:, I apreciated Your suggestion, I tried it,  but it doesn't
>>fix my problem.

please try to post your issued commands here, say

$ mount /proc
$ rm /etc/mtab
$ cat /proc/mounts
$ $MOUNT-COMMANDS....

...and error messages, partition tables.

Christian.

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