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On 7/5/06, James Colby <jcolby@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I have a Gentoo install running inside of a vmware ESX server virtual |
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> machine. I am having a very strange issue though. Every few days the |
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> root filesystem will become read only and the only way that I can fix |
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> it is to reboot or power down the virual machine. Does anyone have |
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> any ideas as to what might be causing this? I have searched through |
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> the logs and the only errors tha I see regarding my root device |
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> (/dev/sda3) seem to be coming from the FSCK that is done on reboot of |
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> the sever. |
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A disk timeout error could cause a filesystem to be remounted |
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read-only. And if /var is on the same disk, you wouldn't necessarily |
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see the errors (since, after all, it is now read-only!). |
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I would start by making /var a separate filesystem if you haven't |
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already. Heck, put it on a different virtual disk if you have to... |
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-Richard |
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