Re: mass file delete problem with nautilus ?

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:15, Rod Butcher wrote:
> I've had a problem occurring fairly regularly when I use nautilus to
> empty a lot of ext3 files (1000's) from the wastebasket - after a while
> the disk goes into "read-only" state - cant delete or create any files.
> Yet hdparm shows the disk is still in readwrite mode.

Looks like your drive is faulty, and your fstab is set to remount the
filesystem readonly on errors. My advice: make backups, fast ! And buy
another disk.

	Xav