File system locked on upgrade

[David S Angulo]

Why are you such a jerk?  Is there anyone OTHER than Derek who can help?

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Derek Broughton<derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> David S Angulo wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Derek Broughton<derek at pointerstop.ca>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> fsck.
>>
>>
>> Are you saying I should run fsck?
>
> Are you reading impaired?  OK, it was terse, but what else _could_ it mean?
>
>>> How do you think it got mounted read-only?
>>
>>
>> Is that a rhetorical question or did you want me to answer it?
>>
>> If you wanted me to answer it, then I reall do not know how it got
>> mounted read-only.
>>
>> If it is rhetorical, then I don't know.  That's why I'm asking.  Could
>> you tell me what you think happened?
>>
>>
>>>As the fstab says
>>> "errors=remount-ro".
>
> What part of that is unobvious?  It SAYS: on error, remount read-only.
> Since both of us are probably sure you didn't explicitly remount it, Ockam's
> razor suggests this is what caused it.
>
>>> Why are you still using ext2?  It really isn't smart, and it's so easy to
>>> add a journal and turn it into ext3 (see tune2fs).  Then if you manage to
>>> turn off the machine without properly shutting down, it'll be able to
>>> recover properly.
>>
>> OK, I'll look into this.  Is this why it's mounted read-only?
>
> Probably.  We can't really tell, but it's always the most likely reason, and
> the only acceptable reason to not use a journalling filesystem these days is
> if the filesystem is _supposed_ to be read-only.
> --
> derek
>
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