[Rack] something wrong with minotaur - read-only file system

[Ben Kochie]

SDA is a cf card.  SDB is the laptop drive.

Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

>i can't even tell what drive is what on that thing.  I thought there
>was a 
>laptop drive mounted in an external enclosure, is that the only drive?
>
>why is it sdb?  shouldn't it be sda if it's the boot drive?
>
>are SSD's more reliable than regular hard drives?  What about a nice
>3.5" 
>desktop drive?
>
>On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Ben Kochie wrote:
>
>> I have a new server setup we can use. I may also have an extra ssd to
>> replace SDB.
>> 
>> Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
>>       On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>>             i can't even run fdisk to see the physical size of
>>             the drive.
>>             root at minotaur:/home/jake# fdisk /dev/sda
>>             bash: /sbin/fdisk: Input/output error
>> 
>> 
>> It's sdb that's failing.
>>  
>>       but assuming we can find a nice hard drive to replace the
>>       one in there, can we just copy the failing drive?
>> 
>> 
>> If we're very lucky, but I would guess not. 
>>
>>       I think minotaur is a good box for low-CPU but critical
>>       tasks like door opening and RFID alerting.
>> 
>> 
>> I think so too, and I'm glad it exists, but it's also become a bit of
>> a dumping ground for new projects that people want to talk to over
>the
>> network.
>> I'd much rather start offloading what we can onto raspberry pis, or
>> ethershield-ed arduinos.
>> 
>> Minotaur being down also breaks in-space DNS, methinks.
>> 
>> Maybe I should hack up a backup resolver on pony and re-point DHCP?
>> That's not the most reliable host either these days, with the UPS.
>> 
>> --j 
>> 
>>
>>       On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
>>
>>             And... Minotaur's disk dies.
>>             I think we're way overloading this box that
>>             was intended as an out-of-band
>>             access host. :p
>>
>>             --j
>>
>>             On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Jake
>>             <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>>                   *** System restart required ***
>>                   Last login: Thu Jan 31 22:56:43 2013
>>             from awesome.local
>>                   jake at minotaur:~$ touch sdfkj
>>                   touch: cannot touch `sdfkj': Read-only
>>             file system
>>                   jake at minotaur:~$ mount
>>                   /dev/mapper/minotaur-root on / type ext4
>>             (rw,errors=remount-ro)
>>                   proc on /proc type proc
>>             (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>>                   sysfs on /sys type sysfs
>>             (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>>                   none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type
>>             fusectl (rw)
>>                   none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs
>>             (rw)
>>                   none on /sys/kernel/security type
>>             securityfs (rw)
>>                   udev on /dev type devtmpfs
>>             (rw,mode=0755)
>>                   devpts on /dev/pts type devpts
>>                   (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
>>                   tmpfs on /run type tmpfs
>>             (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
>>                   none on /run/lock type tmpfs
>>                   (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
>>                   none on /run/shm type tmpfs
>>             (rw,nosuid,nodev)
>>                   /dev/sdb1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
>>                   /dev/mapper/minotaur-home on /home type
>>             ext4 (rw)
>>                   rpc_pipefs on /run/rpc_pipefs type
>>             rpc_pipefs (rw)
>>                   nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
>>
>>                   mount: warning: /etc/mtab is not
>>             writable (e.g. read-only
>>                   filesystem).
>>                          It's possible that information
>>             reported by mount(8) is
>>                   not
>>                          up to date. For actual
>>             information about system mount
>>                   points
>>                          check the /proc/mounts file.
>>
>>                   jake at minotaur:~$
>>                  
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