[plug] HELP! servers boots in ro mode only

[sol]

Ta. I'll give it a go.
sol

Andrew Barbara wrote:

>yes that is correct, you may be able to run fsck under the linux on the
>floppy and fix the problem, not sure.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: sol [mailto:sol at autonomon.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, 11 June 2002 7:37 PM
>To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>Subject: Re: [plug] HELP! servers boots in ro mode only
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>Thanks for your reply Andrew, this could be a lifesaver. I just wanted
>to confirm that what I need to do is to boot using a floppy (or
>something like Tom's Tiny Linux) and then edit the line in /etc/fstab
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>/dev/hda3    /    ext3    defaults, errors=remount-ro
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>becomes:
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>/dev/hda3    /    ext3    defaults, errors=remount-rw
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>Will this make the system reboot in read-write mode? Should I fsck
>whilst I've got the system booted from floppy?
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>Thankyou,
>sol
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>>I the /etc/fstab there is a switch to remount the filesystem in read only
>>mode on filesystem errors, maybe you need to boot into a linux floppy disk
>>or even the Linux install CD (I know the RH boot CD works) and change the
>>file this way, or you may be able to run fsck this way.
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>>Andrew
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: sol [mailto:sol at autonomon.net]
>>Sent: Tuesday, 11 June 2002 4:50 PM
>>To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>>Subject: [plug] HELP! servers boots in ro mode only
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>>I've got a nasty problem I don't know how to solve. I've got a PC
>>running as a network server that boots in read-only mode. There are
>>certainly errors in some of the blocks. (I think this problem was caused
>>by two power outages in quick succession, the second whilst the machine
>>was rebooting.) It has an ext3 filesystem and e2fsck doesn't seem to
>>work. If I could just get it to mount in rw mode I'd be able to fix
>>everything else I think. I've tried:
>>mount -t ext3 rw /dev/hda2    #the boot sector
>>mount -t ext3 rw /dev/hda3     #the root partition
>>But nothing on the hard drives seems to mount. Have I done something
>>wrong here? Or am I on the wrong track?
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>>In conjunction with this I was wondering (because "rm" didn't seem to
>>work and there was no way to log onto gnome, yet "ls" and "less" did
>>work) what executables work? Is it apps that involve reading only, or is
>>it apps in /bin or /sbin or something like that?
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>>Any help greatly appreciated.
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>>sol
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