[ILUG-BOM] [OT] Root partition mouting read-only frequently

[Dinesh Joshi]

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 21:38 +0530, Rohit V Bhute wrote:
> I looked through the output of dmesg and found the following piece 
> interesting.
> <cut>
> [17180032.820000] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete 
> Error }
> [17180032.820000] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, 
> LBAsect=23677870, sector=23677863
> [17180032.820000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> [17180032.820000] end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 23677863
> [17180032.820000] Buffer I/O error on device hda1, logical block 2959725
> [17180032.824000] EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_readdir: directory 
> #1470023 contains a hole at offset 0
> [17180032.824000] Remounting filesystem read-only
> <cut>

harddisk just MIGHT be dying. Mount it as read only and back it up ASAP.
Same symptoms on my old HDD. It finally died! :(

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Regards,

Dinesh A. Joshi