[Voyage-linux] ext2 file system being remounted every 5 minutes

[Jeff Ramin]

Hi folks.

I have since switched to ext2 since my original message below, yet I am
still seeing the same behavior - / is being remounted every 5 minutes. I 
want
to avoid this, to save wear & tear on the compact flash card.

Nothing in cron would be causing this...any ideas? I'm running voyage 0.6.5,
and the file system is mounted thus (ouput from mount command):

/dev/disk/by-label/ROOT_FS / ext2 ro,relatime,errors=continue 0 0

Thanks.


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From: Gustin Johnson <[hidden email] 
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Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [*Voyage*-linux] root being remounted*every**5**minutes*?
To: Jeff Ramin <[hidden email] 
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My first guess is that writing to the journal on EXT3 requires the FS
to be writable.  We use EXT2 on all of our flash based media to
minimize the number of writes.

We once had a similar issue but it was an incorrectly formatted cron
entry.  We have a custom script that remounts the FS as writable, then
does an aptitude update, package download, and simulates an install,
then emails the results.  The error in crontab caused this to be run
*every**5**minutes*instead of once a day.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Jeff Ramin <[hidden email] 
<http://voyage-linux.34677.n3.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=2661075&i=2&by-user=t>> 
wrote:

>
>  I have*voyage*0.6.*5*running on an Alix board, and I'm seeing / get
>  remounted*every**5**minutes*, like so:
>
>  Mar 10 08:10:*54*singlewire*vmunix*: [603042.739714] EXT3 FS on hda1, 
internal
>  journal
>  Mar 10 08:15:*56*singlewire*vmunix*: [603344.099594] EXT3 FS on hda1, 
internal
>  journal
>  Mar 10 08:21:06 singlewire*vmunix*: [603653.940611] EXT3 FS on hda1, 
internal



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Jeff Ramin
Software Engineer
Singlewire Software
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Madison, WI 53713

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