Re: Dead disk

[James Wilkinson <fedora westexe demon co uk>]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Ah, I see what you're up to. I'll put the machine to work and see what
> it does. If it crashes, in what logs should I look? I've already
> peaked into most of what's in /var/log but didn't see anything that
> looked like a crash report. But as that's the first time I've ever
> looked at those logs, I could be wrong. I'm not familiar with them.

To be honest, if the system freezes, that probably means it didn't get a
chance to log anything. This is narrow-down-the-problem-to-one-part-of-
the-computer-and-see-what-happens style troubleshooting, not get-a-
logfile-and-look-in-Google time...

James.

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