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From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Read only rootfs after reiserfsck
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 21:47:06 +0100
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To: Paolo Azzaroli <paoloazzaroli@libero.it>
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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