On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:20 AM Ross Boylan <rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org> wrote: > > Noticing the "write on read-only" error, and remembering it should be > read-only, I added that to the mount options. Which still failed, but > differently: Well, it failed differently in the sense that it succeeded :) Yay! I was fooled by the errors in dmsg, which referred to previous attempts. As you predicted and I hoped, mounting with the read-only option succeeded.
Reco, thanks so much for your help. On to the next problem.... Ross P.S. One reason I'm trying for read-only is that sdf2 is already the backup from the failing drive.