[WBEL-users] Server hard disk failure

[Jeff Fisher]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Francies Moore wrote:
| Hi everyone
|
| One of my WBEL servers has crashed due to the failure of one of its hard
| disks.  My hardware support technician (a recent Linux convert) says it
| could be a filesystem failure.  Is such a thing possible on a machine
| which was doing nothing over Easter?  I thought Linux was more stable
| than "that other system" in this regard.

Anything is possible. I assume the computer was on over Easter -- if so,
it was doing stuff.

|
| Whatever happened to it, it cannot reboot as the ext3 journal cannot get
| its head around the situation.

Does it drop you to a filesystem repair shell? If so, run fsck.ext3 on
the damaged filesystem. I've had some pretty messed up filesystems
thanks to hardware problems that fsck could fix.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFCSyNQpBAut/BiBgoRAl61AJ9GGlPtjsF7RJzquNqLXPrB+IeiFACcDvgl
IkQXLE/+2s1KRiPLkgWOnS0=
=XEyu
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----