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Lambda · 2006-01-05, 07:58

I've got a hard drive here which is nearly 5 years old, and twice recently I've found processes wanting to copy data onto it (fat32 filesystem) complaining that it is mounted read-only. Easy enough to fix, just unmount it then mount it again, but I believe this happens when an error occurs, and Linux remounts it read-only as a precaution. I'm not too knowledgeable about hardware, so I was wondering if this looks to people like a hard drive on the verge of failure, or nothing to worry about. (I don't have any vital unbacked-up data on it anyway, but there would be some inconvenience if it were suddenly to fail, and it's good to be prepared for these things.)

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Lambda Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Age: 44	Hard drive concerns I've got a hard drive here which is nearly 5 years old, and twice recently I've found processes wanting to copy data onto it (fat32 filesystem) complaining that it is mounted read-only. Easy enough to fix, just unmount it then mount it again, but I believe this happens when an error occurs, and Linux remounts it read-only as a precaution. I'm not too knowledgeable about hardware, so I was wondering if this looks to people like a hard drive on the verge of failure, or nothing to worry about. (I don't have any vital unbacked-up data on it anyway, but there would be some inconvenience if it were suddenly to fail, and it's good to be prepared for these things.)