Re: [CentOS] USB drive is "read-only file system" and cannot umount - how to fix

2015-10-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Just disconnected, power-cycled then reconnected the drive. /var/log/messages tell me: Oct 26 20:50:10 homebase kernel: EXT4-fs warning (device sdd1): ext4_clear_journal_err: Filesystem error recorded from previous mount: IO failure Oct 26 20:50:10 homebase kernel: EXT4-fs warning (device

[CentOS] USB drive is "read-only file system" and cannot umount - how to fix

2015-10-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I 'just' noticed that at some point, my USB backup drive on my server is mounted as read-only and all of my background sync cron jobs have been failing. So I need to fix this without rebooting the server. I can VNC into the server and running "mount" shows: /dev/sdc1 on /media/HD103SI type

Re: [CentOS] USB drive is "read-only file system" and cannot umount - how to fix

2015-10-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 10/25/2015 11:12 AM, Barry Brimer wrote: I 'just' noticed that at some point, my USB backup drive on my server is mounted as read-only and all of my background sync cron jobs have been failing. So I need to fix this without rebooting the server. How can I get this drive r/w? Have you

Re: [CentOS] USB drive is "read-only file system" and cannot umount - how to fix

2015-10-25 Thread Barry Brimer
I 'just' noticed that at some point, my USB backup drive on my server >is >mounted as read-only and all of my background sync cron jobs have been >failing. > >So I need to fix this without rebooting the server. >How can I get this drive r/w? Have you tried "mount -o remount,rw "? The