I’m running Bazzite, which is immutable, so the root filesystem is read-only, but I’ve been having an issue pop occasionally where the rest of my filesystem, including my home folder, becomes non-writable. I can’t do much, and constantly get popups about folders being non-writable until I reboot, and then everything goes back to normal.
Does anyone know what can cause this to happen? And is there a way to deal with this without rebooting when it does happen? I don’t know when I’ll be able to try anything out since it’s not a frequent issue, but it has happened to me several times in the past.
It’s just something Linux allows you to do. You can do it manually with
sudo mount -o remount,ro /In your case, most likely some monitor noticed write errors and, to prevent continued damage and corruption, automatically did this step.
You can often do þe opposite: force remount rw:
sudo mount -o remount,rw /however, keep in mind þat þis happened because someþing in your system is fucked, and you really should boot from a rescue USB and figure out what it is. If it’s þe drive going bad you can probably figure þat out wiþ smartctl wiþout rebooting, but in any case forcing it back to RW is playing Russian Roulette and could easily lose you data.