[WBEL-users] Server hard disk failure

[Scott Silva]

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.
> 
> Whatever happened to it, it cannot reboot as the ext3 journal cannot get
> its head around the situation.
> 
> How do I recover what is left on the surviving hard disk (which contains
> the operating system and some user files)?  Do I revert to ext2 by
> deleting the journal and changing the fstab?  If so, where do I find the
> journal file, and what is it called?
> 
> Can I go back to ext3 when a new HD is fitted?
>

It would help loads if you remember or have written down somewhere what
is on each drive.
IE... partition numbers and mountpoints
If you can get back /etc, /home,  and /var that is most of the changing
data on a system. Much of the rest will have to be re-installed, but is
fairly static data

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