On Sunday, 17 March 2019 17:05:58 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > On 3/17/19 10:48 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > Hi, > > > My little Atom box has a small rescue system which I boot once a week > > to back up the main system. The backup script is a simple list of bash > > commands to mount partitions and tar them to a USB disk. > > Please share a copy of the backup script. > > > While the backup is running I run another script to clean up after > > any recent update, which involves removing surplus packages, running > > eclean etc. > > Please share a copy of your cleanup script. > > > But! At least once per session I have to remount the root filesystem read- > > write because something, presumably tar, has caused it to be remounted > > read- only. > > "tar" itself shouldn't alter mounts at all. > > It is possible that there could be a mount option that causes the file > system to be remounted read-only if there is a problem accessing the > file system. > > > Where do I start tracking this down? This behaviour was a factor in > > my suspecting an SSD failure, but I've replaced that and still get the > > same remounting. > > But such remounting is not likely on a new SSD.
Yes, it would be unlikely. > I'd need to see the scripts to even hazard a guess as to what might be > happening. Also, in your previous thread you mentioned you were about to run memtest to discard the possibility of a faulty RAM. Did you run it overnight and what did you get? -- Regards, Mick
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