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File system becoming read-only at random
for some time now my OS has been switching to read-only mode seemingly at random. Typical fix for this problem was booting from live USB and running fsck /dev/sda3/ and then I could boot up normally. ...
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Root doesn't remount writable during boot
Background: My Ubuntu server sometimes freezes, and I am still trying to find out why. (I thought it was drive access errors on the data drive, but moving it to a different SATA port fixed the errors, ...
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Read only filesystem (/dev/sda7) and booting into intrafms. (WIndows 10 dual boot)
Whenever I try to boot into Ubuntu I get the Intrafms prompt. I have found that I can fix it using
fsck /dev/sda7, say yes to all the troubleshooting prompts, and when that finishes I useexit. This ...
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Unable to boot and access/mount the root partition
I am unable to boot into system.
I was working normally and then as I decided to log out, and pressed Log out option, a long stream of code started to roll down the screen, and nothing else happened. ...
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Root file system mounted as read-only
Recently, on of our Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS servers went into RO mode. I have searched all over and tried various things to no avail, therefore I am turning here for help.
I copied a folder (size +/ 24 MB)...
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Home partition becomes readonly
Similar to this post, the file system on my home partition suddenly became read only. On reboot, my HHD containing this partition would not mount and I had to use fsck to repair it. Now it works fine. ...
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Read Only on Whole Drive
is there anyway to fix my ubuntu server 16.04 LTS from read only error?
Before that, I tried to update grub and update initramfs for disabling swap, then after reboot, it happens... it quite sucks ...
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How to mount root filesystem read-only - 16.04
In the past when I entered recovery-mode, the root filesystem was read-only and that was perfectly fine.
But now. after pressing enter at the prompt to drop to shell, it is mounted read-write. It is ...
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How do I make whole system permanently read-only on Linux so even root can't have access?
After installing all the required drivers, I want my system to be in read-only mode. Even root can't change anything on the system.
Usecases could, any virus should not affect the system or system ...
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Booting into read-only file system
I updated Ubuntu Desktop(although I'm using it as a server) from 14.04 to 16.04 on ssh. After completion and rebooting, it boots into read-only file system.
root@Server:/# touch a
touch: cannot touch ...
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'read-only filesystem' & 'I/O device error' Ubuntu 14.04
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server edition as a home server, and i created a raid0 array from my two old 298 GB external HDD-s. After some time, when tried to copy some files i run into the error: '...
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Not able to write to pendrive
I have a 2 GB pendrive(FAT16)... I used dd command to make it bootable
dd if=archlinux.iso of=/mnt/pd/
But now when I tried to rename some folders in it... it gives an error saying this is read-...
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GUI gone after setting drive to mount at boot
Im running Ubuntu 15.04 on an SSD which is low on space so I decided to download my Steam games onto a seporate HDD which has only Steam games. I set the partition of that HDD to autostart in Disk ...
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