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We have a file system mounted to /home2 to which we do backups.</p><p>It has been writable for quite some time (to root at least). However, now, trying</p><p>to do anything requiring writing gives an error which sometimes says "read only</p><p>file system".</p><p> </p><p>I heard sometimes if linux encounters errors in a disk it will remount it as read only.</p><p>A mount -l however shows it as</p><p>/dev/sdb1 on /home2 type ext3 (rw) []<br></p><p>and ls -ls on it: 4 drwxrwxr-x 9 root cusload 4096 Oct 3 10:19 /home2<br>So it appears to be writable.</p><p> </p><p>Doing antyhing like > /home2/test or vi /home2/test (or any subdirectory)</p><p>gives errors though about not being able to write (or read only file system).</p><p> </p><p>Any idea what is going on? </p></html>