[CentOS] read-only file system when trying to save files

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On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Wes James <comptekki at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net
> >wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Am 01.11.2013 23:51, schrieb Wes James:
> > > That was it.  This is an old mac pro that I put centos on yesterday.
>  It
> > > had 4 disks in it and this is the 3rd that has died.  A faculty member
> > had
> > > it for 5-6 years and it was on 24/7.  It's been in the junk pile for
> > > several months.  I guess long enough for the disks to go south from
> > sitting
> > > on so long then going off for a period...  maybe....  Anyone heard of
> > this?
>

The drive was probably ready to die before that system was shut off and
stored.
It's more about the 24/7 usage (drive spinning) for that many years, power
conditioning (outages/brownouts), or environmental conditions (heat, poor
air flow, gobs of dust).


> >
> > power down a disk which was running 6 years 24/7 and it most likely goes
> > bad
> >
> > especially Apple Hardware since this unholy crap company even built
> > in the expensive X-Server "Hitachi Deskstar" disks and sold them
>

Deathstar ;)


> > like gold
> >
> >
> These are seagate barracuda 7200 rpm 750gig disks.
>

You should consider software raid if you want a tad of redundancy.


>
> -wes
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