Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Williams wrote: > Maxtors RMA process is exceptionally quick and simple though, as long as the > drive is still detectable by the BIOS. Sure - we have a *lot* of experience with their RMA process! > Their warranty periods are 3 year and > above now too. > All you pay is

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > I had very bad experience with bigfoots, about 50% (of 10 or more) died on the > first 2.5 years. That's not too bad compared to Maxtors. I have Seagate (SCSI) disks in servers that have been running for almost 5 years now... -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 25 August 2005 20:38, Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:07:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > well, my new seagate died in the first week.. .the second one run for > > years without problems... > > > > Seagate = Sie geht oder sie geht nicht. (it works or not). >

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:46, A. Khattri wrote: > I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had > one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. > > Because of this, we now have a "Seagate-only" policy for hard-drives - > they may cost a bit more but they're re

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Alec Shaner
A. Khattri wrote: I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. Because of this, we now have a "Seagate-only" policy for hard-drives - they may cost a bit more but they're reliable and many come with a three year wa

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:07:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > well, my new seagate died in the first week.. .the second one run for years > without problems... > > Seagate = Sie geht oder sie geht nicht. (it works or not). > If it is DOA or dies very soon, you can always demand they

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
On Thursday 25 August 2005 15:07, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Thursday 25 August 2005 17:46, A. Khattri wrote: > > I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had > > one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. > > > > Because of this, we now have a "Seagate-

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 25 August 2005 17:46, A. Khattri wrote: > I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had > one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. > > Because of this, we now have a "Seagate-only" policy for hard-drives - > they may cost a bit more but they're r

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > From a log investigation you might be right. > > Bugger, it is a newish disk too. > > Better dig out the receipt and get ready to ask for a replacement. I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that d

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-24 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:13, Matt Nordhoff wrote: > On 08/24/05 15:59, Nick Rout wrote: > > For somewhere between 3 days and a week I have been rising to find > > that /home has become readonly overnight. > > Filesystem errors, maybe? That's why I was always getting read-only > partitions... R

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:13:41 -0400 Matt Nordhoff wrote: > On 08/24/05 15:59, Nick Rout wrote: > > For somewhere between 3 days and a week I have been rising to find > > that /home has become readonly overnight. > > > > Basically I have to shut down X, manually kill all processes > > accessing /h

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-24 Thread Matt Nordhoff
On 08/24/05 15:59, Nick Rout wrote: For somewhere between 3 days and a week I have been rising to find that /home has become readonly overnight. Basically I have to shut down X, manually kill all processes accessing /home and then run umount /home mount /home which fixes it until tomorrow morn

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-24 Thread cafairle
Whats your line in fstab for /home? It does sound cron-job like. Installed a cron daemon recently? Check /etc/cron.daily or crontab -l Does ownership change? Permissions? Cheers, Chris Quoting Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For somewhere between 3 days and a week I have been rising to find

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-24 Thread John Jolet
sounds like a cron job On Wednesday 24 August 2005 14:59, Nick Rout wrote: > For somewhere between 3 days and a week I have been rising to find > that /home has become readonly overnight. > > Basically I have to shut down X, manually kill all processes > accessing /home and then run > > umount

[gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-24 Thread Nick Rout
For somewhere between 3 days and a week I have been rising to find that /home has become readonly overnight. Basically I have to shut down X, manually kill all processes accessing /home and then run umount /home mount /home which fixes it until tomorrow morning. I also tried mount /home -o remo