[Gllug] spontaneously unmounting filesystem

[Jonathan Dye]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 08:44, Jonathan Dye wrote:
>> to be anything in the logs.  Does anyone have any suggestions as to
>> what may have happened so I can try and prevent this from happening
>> again? 
> 
> By default, debian will mount "system" partitions with the flag
> "errors=remount-ro" which means that if any filesystem problems are
> detected, it will automatically mark the partition as read only.

I know that but it wasn't that the files were read-only, they totally
vanished!

> You should back up any important data from the disk, unmount it, and
> then run fsck on it. 

I've backed up but I haven't run fsck yet.

JD

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