[ale] mounted filesystem becomes read-only

[Geoffrey]

I don't get this.  I have a mounted file system that I just created a vm 
on via vmware player.  It's never been unmounted, yet if I try to create 
a file on it I get:

touch foo
touch: cannot touch `foo': Read-only file system

More weirdness:

root at mac/media/vmware> mount|grep vmware
/dev/sdb3 on /media/vmware type ext3 (rw)

The OS clearly thinks it's a writable file system.

Clues anyone?????

I can't unmount it either as it says it's busy, and I'm pretty sure that 
has something to do with vmware:

ps aux|grep vmware
root      2837  0.0  0.0  18552   884 ?        Ss   Jun09   0:00 
/usr/bin/vmware-usbarbitrator
root      2926  0.0  0.0  10980   156 ?        Ss   Jun09   0:00 
/usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -s 6 -cf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf 
/etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf 
/var/run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet1.pid vmnet1
root      2949  0.0  0.0  10980   540 ?        Ss   Jun09   0:00 
/usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -s 6 -cf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf 
/etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf 
/var/run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet8.pid vmnet8
root      2955  0.0  0.0   9116   964 ?        S    Jun09   0:37 
/usr/bin/vmnet-natd -s 6 -m /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat.mac -c 
/etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf
esoteric 14124  0.0  0.0   2852   780 ?        S<   Jun10   0:00 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/thnuclnt -pdir /tmp/vmware-esoteric/thnuclnt-14114 -fg
esoteric 14126  0.0  0.0  11304   980 ?        S<   Jun10   0:00 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/thnuclnt -pdir /tmp/vmware-esoteric/thnuclnt-14114 -fg
esoteric 14128  0.0  0.0  57468   248 ?        S<   Jun10   0:00 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/thnuclnt -pdir /tmp/vmware-esoteric/thnuclnt-14114 -fg
esoteric 14129  0.0  0.0  57472   224 ?        S<   Jun10   0:00 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/thnuclnt -pdir /tmp/vmware-esoteric/thnuclnt-14114 -fg


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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