Read only disks on Linux system

Linux and Unix-Like Fedora
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Hi guys

I have a SSL server that is running Fedora 9. I wanted to create a directory but get:

mkdir: cannot create directory `test': Read-only file system

Any ideas?

2

Yes. Remount the file system as read-write. That's the best answer I can offer based on the information you've give.

3

System mounted the disk as read only due to I/O failure errors...

4

If the disk has I/O errors, shouldn't you be more concerned with repairing/recovering that, instead of doing a (possibly dangerous) write operation?

But if you really want to go through with it:

mount -oremount,rw /path/to/disk

should mount the device in read/write mode. However, should you lose data due to that, neither I nor the UNIX and Linux Forums can be held liable.

5

This was a Virtual server running on ESX with a Netapp NFS data-store solution. Something screwed up the virtual disk... I rebooted it but obviously could not boot after that. It is fine, took me a few minutes to roll back the whole server to a previous snapshot.

Thanks!