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. Alfred