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File system in read-only mode?

Posted on April 16, 2013

Noticed that my droplet’s file system is in read-only mode, with dmesg showing aborted journal writes.

[7767208.611082] Aborting journal on device sda-8. [7767208.637496] EXT4-fs error (device sda): ext4_journal_start_sb:370: Detected aborted journal [7767208.649744] EXT4-fs error (device sda): ext4_journal_start_sb:370: Detected aborted journal [7767208.652709] EXT4-fs error (device sda): ext4_journal_start_sb:370: Detected aborted journal [7795978.118274] journal commit I/O error

Anyone else seeing this, or have suggestions for resolution?

Thanks! Gabe



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ive experienced this a few times on my droplet :( have a support issue open about it now <br> <br>have experienced no heavy load that would shut it down

Hi Gabe, <br> <br>Best to open a support ticket regarding this so we can troubleshoot it. <br> <br>Most often cause of a RO FS is an unclean shutdown during heavy IO load.

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