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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

  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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