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Today while working on a 12.04 Server (on a VMWare machine), I suddenly couldn't write on the disk anymore.

I got this error: Read-only file system

I ran sudo fsck -Af

It seems like the drive changed to NTSF and I can't see any file now.

When I boot it, it shows:

error: unknown file system
grub rescue >

If type ls, it shows: (hd0) (hd0.msdos5) (hd0.msdos1) (fd0)

It seems like the system switched to NTSF but I have no idea why and how to fix it.

Then I ran a Live CD, I cannot mount the disk at all.

Any idea?

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