From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Basil Chupin Subject: Re: What does this mean? Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 02:13:51 +1000 Message-ID: <3D29BA3F.7010201@tpg.com.au> References: <3D2993E5.6030707@tpg.com.au> <20020708190923.A928@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Oleg Drokin Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Oleg Drokin wrote: >Hello! > >On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 11:30:13PM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote: > > > >>I am running SuSE 8 and the HD is being accessed every 5 seconds by >>"something". I thought I would just do a quick check of the reiserfs but >> >> > >atime updates and stuff? > > I really do not know what is causing this every-5-seconds access. This is why I am trying to check the integrity of the fs as part of my exercise of finding the reason for the access. >>on executing "reiserfsck --check --logfile check.log /dev/hda7" this >>produces the error message "/dev/hda7 is mounted w/ write permissions, >>can not check it." I cannot find this message documented so am wondering >>what it means, and what do I need to do in order to be able to check the >>integrity of the reiserfs on my sytem. Can anyone please help? >> >> >You can only check integrity on read-only mounted fs. >You can only fix stuff on completely unmounted fs. > >Bye, > Oleg > >. > Someone else responded to me earlier with the statement to execute following: "mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda7" which I thought had the "rw" wrong; but by changing the "rw" to "ro" I then got the error message, "mount: / busy". All this is perplexing me, firstly because I am not tryng to change anything- all I am trying to do is to do what the blurb about reiserfs says which is "do this to CHECK the fs"; and secondly, how could one ever effect any corrections to the fs if it cannot be mounted!? All too much for a country lad to fathom. Cheers.