USB drive re-mounting itself as READ ONLY by itself...
Gregory Gulik
greg at gulik.org
Wed Jul 21 19:23:51 UTC 2004
I've been using an external USB 2.0 drive as a backup device on my
Fedora box for a while and it's been working fine. Recently however
I've been trying the Interactive kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3.desktop.1 and I
appreciate the improved interactive response but one oddity is about
every other day my /backup device (the USB drive) seems to be
re-mounting itself as read only. Attempts to use the remount option
don't work resulting in the error:
mount: block device /dev/sda2 is write-protected, mounting read-only
If I manually unmount the drive and mount it again it's fine again for
another day or two. Unfortunately my automated backups every other day
fail because they can't write to the drive.
I then have to fix the mount and re-run the backup manually.
One thing that might have something to do with it are these errors in
syslog:
Jul 21 02:01:41 penguin kernel: ext3_reserve_inode_write: aborting
transaction: Journal has aborted in
__ext3_journal_get_write_access<2>EXT3-fs error (device sda2) in
ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
Jul 21 02:01:41 penguin kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda2) in
ext3_orphan_del: Journal has aborted
Jul 21 02:01:41 penguin kernel: ext3_reserve_inode_write: aborting
transaction: Journal has aborted in
__ext3_journal_get_write_access<2>EXT3-fs error (device sda2) in
ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
Jul 21 02:01:41 penguin kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda2) in
ext3_delete_inode: Journal has aborted
Jul 21 02:01:42 penguin kernel: EXT3-fs abort (device sda2):
ext3_journal_start: Detected aborted journal
Jul 21 14:18:52 penguin kernel: EXT3-fs abort (device sda2):
ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
Jul 21 14:18:59 penguin kernel: EXT3-fs abort (device sda2):
ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
--
Greg Gulik http://www.gulik.org/greg/
greg @ gulik.org
More information about the users
mailing list