Fwd: [Voyage-linux] root being remounted every 5 minutes?

[Gustin Johnson]

Forgot to CC the list.


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From: Gustin Johnson <gustin at meganerd.ca>
Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] root being remounted every 5 minutes?
To: Jeff Ramin <jeff.ramin at singlewire.com>


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 <jeff.ramin at singlewire.com> 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
> journal
> Mar 10 08:26:07 singlewire vmunix: [603954.829327] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal
> journal
> Mar 10 08:31:07 singlewire vmunix: [604255.186788] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal
> journal
> Mar 10 08:36:17 singlewire vmunix: [604565.619638] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal
> journal
> Mar 10 08:41:19 singlewire vmunix: [604866.874019] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal
> journal
>
> Anybody know why this is happening? Nothing in crontab would be causing it.
>
> Thanks.
>
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