Failing drive???.......LOL
Fellas, lets not be quick to judge

@Muya. Hoping you haven't gotten rid of your drive already.....
 
Mount supplements the args/params you give with those set in /etc/fstab
The args that "fscks" up users ability to do RW opps are "dmask" and "fmask" and most importantly "umask" not being set to "000".

Therefore nano (or vi) your fstab like so:-
nano /etc/fstab

Find the line that corresponds to your drive, it may start with /dev/sdb2 or the drive's UUID

Then depending on what you see in the options collumn,...
get rid of "dmask = XXX" & "fmask = XXX" parrams (if they are there) and add "umask=000" 

- OR -

change "umask = XXX" to "umask=000"

when done, just "umount /dev/sda && mount /dev/sda" without parrams and voila!





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2012/7/20 William Muriithi <william.muriithi@gmail.com>
>
> Most definitely a disk failure, best option is to replace it FAST!
>

In my experience, that is always the cause.  Check the kernel logs.
And don't reboot until you are ready to replace it, when it goes down,
its not going to be coming up again so you will have a more serious
outage

William
> On 20 July 2012 12:02, Brian Ngure <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
>> Do a disk check. The drive may be failing.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Moses Muya <mouzmuyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can't do that right now, it's a production server and the read-only file
>>> system is only affecting 3 users.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20 July 2012 11:38, Arthur Buliva <arthurbuliva@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Reboot the machine
>>>>
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>>>> To: skunkworks@my.co.ke; skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
>>>> Subject: [Skunkworks] Read-Only Filesystem on Linux
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>>>>
>>>> Good People(and Bad ones as well),
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>>>> I got a read-only file system error on one of my hardisks on a Linux box
>>>> and quickly switched to root and did 'mount -o remount,rw
>>>> /where/i/wanted/it/to/be/mounted/ ' but I keep getting the error 'mount:
>>>> block device /dev/sdb2 is write-protected, mounting read-only' .
>>>>
>>>> I have also tried to unmount it so that I mount it afresh, i.e 'umount
>>>> /where/it/was/mounted/  but I get the error 'umount: /where/it/was/mounted/:
>>>> device is busy' ! Is there something i'm missing here?
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> Most definitely a disk failure, best option is to replace it FAST!
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> On 20 July 2012 12:02, Brian Ngure <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
>> Do a disk check. The drive may be failing.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Moses Muya <mouzmuyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can't do that right now, it's a production server and the read-only file
>>> system is only affecting 3 users.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20 July 2012 11:38, Arthur Buliva <arthurbuliva@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Reboot the machine
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my Casio FX-350HB Calculator
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: mouzmuyer@gmail.com
>>>> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:28:25 +0300
>>>> To: skunkworks@my.co.ke; skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
>>>> Subject: [Skunkworks] Read-Only Filesystem on Linux
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Good People(and Bad ones as well),
>>>>
>>>> I got a read-only file system error on one of my hardisks on a Linux box
>>>> and quickly switched to root and did 'mount -o remount,rw
>>>> /where/i/wanted/it/to/be/mounted/ ' but I keep getting the error 'mount:
>>>> block device /dev/sdb2 is write-protected, mounting read-only' .
>>>>
>>>> I have also tried to unmount it so that I mount it afresh, i.e 'umount
>>>> /where/it/was/mounted/  but I get the error 'umount: /where/it/was/mounted/:
>>>> device is busy' ! Is there something i'm missing here?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Moses Muya.
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