From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: Rupa Schomaker <rupa@rupa.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS repair on / in a hosted environment
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:34:19 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070719023419.GC12413810@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <469E690B.5070600@rupa.com>
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:24:59PM -0700, Rupa Schomaker wrote:
> I have a virtual server hosted in a XEN environment. Kernel is
> 2.6.16.13-XenU and I can't change it. :( Host provider is not responsive
> to getting us a newer kernel.
>
> Anyway, during my nightly rsync backup, I started seeing the following:
.....
>
> On boot, mount shows:
>
> /dev/sda1 on / type xfs (rw)
>
> # mount -o remount,ro /
>
> after the remount, mount still shows / as rw
>
> # mount
> /dev/sda1 on / type xfs (rw)
>
what does /proc/mounts tell you (rather than /etc/mtab)?
If /proc/mounts says ro, then try upgrading your xfsprogs package.
and then retrying the repair....
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-19 2:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-18 19:24 XFS repair on / in a hosted environment Rupa Schomaker
2007-07-19 2:34 ` David Chinner [this message]
2007-07-19 13:09 ` Rupa Schomaker
2007-07-19 16:25 ` Rupa Schomaker
2007-07-20 0:36 ` David Chinner
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