On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:55:53 -0600, Scot Jenkins <scot at thinkunix.net> wrote: > Shawn Fertch wrote: > > The cause for replacing the drive is that the root ( / ) partition has > > marked itself as read-only. Doing fsck's and rebooting is no longer > > correcting the issue. In doing a dd from one drive to the other, is > > there a chance that whatever is marking the partition read-only will > > be brought over as well? > > Since dd is just a raw image copy, when you dd to the new drive, your > root partition will still be marked read-only. I haven't run across > a root partition marking itself read-only before. I have to believe > this can be corrected with enough googling. I agree. Scot, have you tried booting off a bootable Linux CD/floppy and attempted to diagnose the issue there? If not, I would recommend you take a look at that first. I think Knoppix and every other major bootable Linux CD will have some sort of ext2/3, reiser, and xfs utils included. > I have to throw this out there: you do have backups you can restore > from, right? :P I was going to ask that too :) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list