On Jun 5, 2006, at 9:03, I wrote: > This is very strange. Everything was running fine Friday night. > This morning I walk into work and find that my root file system > (which is actually the only filesystem besides /boot) is not > writable. Yet mount thinks it's mounted read/write: > > # mount > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) > [snip] > # touch foo > touch: cannot touch `foo': Read-only file system > > Anyone else seen this? This is on a relatively recently fresh > CentOS 4.3 install. Never mind, shortly after posting this the system started to behave strangely. I tried to look in /var/log/messages, and the system locked up. It's the "EXT3-fs error (devive dm-0) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted" problem from a previous post again. I've removed the dmraid package, but I've not yet replaced the SATA cable. I'll have to do that next... Alfred