On 3/29/07, Alfred von Campe <alfred at 110.net> wrote: > On Mar 29, 2007, at 6:36, Rasmus Back wrote: > > > I have a Dell SC440 running Centos 4.4. It has two 500GB disks in a > > RAID1 array using linux software raid (md1 is / and md0 is /boot). > > Recently the root file system was remounted read-only for some reason. > > The logs don't show anything unusual, presumably the file system was > > read-only before anythng was logged. Running dmesg showed this error > > repeated many times: > > > > EXT3-fs error (device md1) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted > > I had the exact error 9 months or so ago (look for a similarly titled > thread in the archives). It was a disk going bad. Get all the data > off you need now and replace the disk ASAP. It may run for a few > days/weeks before it gets mounted again read only, but eventually you > will lose some data. Hi Alfred. Thanks for the pointer! The smart logs for my drives don't show any errors but I'll start a long selftest just to be sure. Although if it is a failing hard drive then the raid driver should kick it out of the array. Your system was a laptop with just one drive, right?