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From: Ookhoi <ookhoi@humilis.net>
Subject: Re: Read only rootfs after reiserfsck
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:42:56 +0100
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To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net>
Cc: Paolo Azzaroli <paoloazzaroli@libero.it>, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>

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.