HDD Dying - Get an alert when remounting RO?

[Scott Elcomb]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:37:56AM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
>> The tired machine in question is running Gnome under Ubuntu Edgy Eft.
>
> I don't think any such utility exists, since really when would anyone
> have a need for such a thing?

Because I don't know that errors were detected until running
applications can no longer write to the filesystem.  I'll replace the
drive in a few days, maybe a week.  As a temporary bandage, if there's
a particular beep or popup message that lets me know the drive's
having trouble then:

 a) I know immediately what trouble's afoot and
 b) perhaps I can script something to mount a loopback for temporary files.

When Gnome's running and the FSs goes RO I can no longer open
gnome-terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1 usually works alright though) which is a
pain.  Worse, I can't read man pages or get firefox to run so I can
look man pages up online.

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