On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 04:33, Mike McMullen wrote: > I have two FC2 systems. I use rsync to create a mirror of our office data > on the one system as a backup during different times of the day. Good on you. > Both systems were originally running RH7.3. A week a go I freshly installed > FC2 from CD and updated to the most current version of packages on the > main server and moved our applications over. The system ran fine for the > week. So I installed FC2 from CD and updated packages on the backup > server this weekend. This all went great. So.. both are not FC2? > Today as I am trying to sync the backup to the main, I get the following > errors after the rsync goes merrily on for about 8 gigabytes synced to the > backup server. > failed to set times on "somefilenamehere": Read-only file system So... after 8 gigs, the problem comes around? Meaning, after 8G, the FS becomes Read Only? > Then I get the following error on every file after that: > > mkstemp "/EPC/data/SuppDocs/Vista/MooreM-1rst/.anotherfilename.Wnopm8" failed: Read-only file system > > The entire file system which is "/" is now read-only. If I try to reboot I get that the filesystem needs > checked and drops me into maintenance. I fsck the partition and it find all kinds of problems > and some files are mangled. What sort of partition is it? > FYI, I am running software raid and "/" is a software raid-1 partition consisting of two devices. Both > are configured the same and are the same disk drives. I don't have experience there. In My case, I've used it to actually move a partition from /dev/hda9 to /dev/hda8 using rsync. (I've already removed my oroginal fc2 partition on /dev/hda9 and now toying with gentoo) -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 18:22:10 up 20:45, 6 users, load average: 1.89, 1.50, 1.23
