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Shermozle
Joined: 15 Apr 2004
Posts: 52
Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:08 am Post subject: / FS remounting read-only |
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I've been experiencing a rather annoying problem with the / partition on my Linode. Periodically, and only when I'm downloading with Bit Torrent, the filesystem gets remounted read-only. Of course, this being the logging partition, the error that causes this isn't logged either.
My suspicions are one of:
* Too much disk i/o
* Somehow the partition is trying to write outside where it should -- some bug in the disk resizing with linode?
I've e2fsck'ed the partition, correcting any errors, but the problem recurs whenever I run Bit Torrent.
Any ideas? Or ideas how I can at least diagnose the problem? |
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Stever
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Posts: 41
Location: NC, USA
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:27 am Post subject: Re: / FS remounting read-only |
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Shermozle wrote: Or ideas how I can at least diagnose the problem?
Maybe try logging to a different partition, or remote logging to another host?
EDIT: Or log to the console?
Or maybe look at the output of Code: # dmesg |
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edavis
Joined: 20 Jul 2004
Posts: 35
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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I used to have a similar problem that would occur during backups. It was all related to the partition using 1K blocks instead of 4K. See this thread:
http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3330 |
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Shermozle
Joined: 15 Apr 2004
Posts: 52
Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject: 1k block size bug |
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Yes this does seem to be the 1k block size bug. Linode have a (currently unlinked) utility to convert your fs. I raised a ticket and (fast as ever) Mike responded and got it all happening for me.
Thanks guys! Insanely good support, as always. |
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