Re: Recovery help needed for remote server: file system mounted read-only

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Tom Browder wrote: 
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 05:37 Alain D D Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 05:29:05AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
> >
> > > I suspect a failing disk,
> >
> > My main home PC is 10 years old and still going strong (I over specced it
> > when
> > I bought it). A few years ago I had what looked like disk problems (time
> > outs,
> > failed writes, ...). I replaced the power supply and the problems went
> > away.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately this is a leased, remote server. But I can ask the company to
> check the PSU.

Then you can also stop all daemons, run sync, and ask the
company to power-cycle it. Quite possibly they provide a console
for you to do that yourself.

-dsr-