[rdiff-backup-users] Re: rdiff-backup remounts partition readonly?

[Troels Arvin]

Hello,

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:06:44 +0100, Christos Tachtatzis wrote:
> I
> was monitoring /proc/mounts and the partition is mounted read-write
> from the mount command but when the rdiff-backup starts it remounts
> the partition as read-only.

I very much doubt that rdiff-backup would mount/unmount/remount anything.
What you might be seeing is that the kernel discovers a problem with
I/O to the partition on the external disk. In such a situation, the kernel
remounts the partition read-only.

Have you checked your system log?

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Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark