From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Subject: Re: Read only rootfs after reiserfsck Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 03:35:26 +0100 Message-ID: <3FB19C6E.7030109@gmx.net> References: <000001c3a707$58db90e0$7dea1d97@delta> <3FAEA7CA.4000301@gmx.net> <011b01c3a89d$28e03520$0100007f@delta> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <011b01c3a89d$28e03520$0100007f@delta> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Paolo Azzaroli , ReiserFS List 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" > To: "Paolo Azzaroli" > Cc: > 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.