partition not writing
Anyone know what can cause a partition to silently not write?
Sometime yesterday the system decided to silently refuse to write to anywhere on /dev/hdb2 (which happens to be / and is in ext2)
If I tried writing/editing or anything a file on the partition, it would allow me, but the results just were not happening.
Edit part of my firewall config, it let me write, but if I loaded it again, no changes. Tried to touch a file, no results. Tried moving some files onto the partition, I might as well have moved them to /dev/null. /proc/mounts was showing it as rw, the partition had 324Mb free, and /var/log/messages was not showing anything wrong.
Other partitions on that drive were completely fine, as were partitions on other drives. Just that one was acting b0rked on me.
Eventually I gave up and rebooted to single user mode. Ran an fsck, It couldn't find anything. Booted back into runlevel 2, and all was right again.
My / partition isn't really used for much, except the usual /bin /etc /sbin /libs /root and /mnt (where my mh mail tree is kept - don't ask why lol).
Oh and /dev and /proc, which didn't seem affected by this weirdness.
Anyone heard of any such behaviour and/or know what it could be caused by?
For reference I'm running Debian sarge (testing), on 2.4.20, with VIA KT400 / VT8235
While I'm here, let me be lazy and ask if anyone knows of the status of support for the SiI 3112 SATA controller, last I heard there was something for 2.5/2.6 but it was flaky...
Sometime yesterday the system decided to silently refuse to write to anywhere on /dev/hdb2 (which happens to be / and is in ext2)
If I tried writing/editing or anything a file on the partition, it would allow me, but the results just were not happening.
Edit part of my firewall config, it let me write, but if I loaded it again, no changes. Tried to touch a file, no results. Tried moving some files onto the partition, I might as well have moved them to /dev/null. /proc/mounts was showing it as rw, the partition had 324Mb free, and /var/log/messages was not showing anything wrong.
Other partitions on that drive were completely fine, as were partitions on other drives. Just that one was acting b0rked on me.
Eventually I gave up and rebooted to single user mode. Ran an fsck, It couldn't find anything. Booted back into runlevel 2, and all was right again.
My / partition isn't really used for much, except the usual /bin /etc /sbin /libs /root and /mnt (where my mh mail tree is kept - don't ask why lol).
Oh and /dev and /proc, which didn't seem affected by this weirdness.
Anyone heard of any such behaviour and/or know what it could be caused by?
For reference I'm running Debian sarge (testing), on 2.4.20, with VIA KT400 / VT8235
While I'm here, let me be lazy and ask if anyone knows of the status of support for the SiI 3112 SATA controller, last I heard there was something for 2.5/2.6 but it was flaky...
