Re: Linux crash aid request

[Dwight Schauer <dschauer vcsd com>]

The drive may be OK. If the box crashed, then /dev/hda8 may not have
been synched prior to the crash, and may have been left in a quite messy
state. What where the results of the manual fsck?

Have you determined why the box crashed, in other words, somehow managed
to lock up, reboot, or shut itself down improperly?

Kevin Colby wrote:

> Colin Price (EML) wrote:
> >
> > Came in this morning :
> >         Our reliable Linux box had crashed.
> >         It had had a good innings (a couple of months).
> >         Anyway, the following is what I recorded.
> >
> >         [...]
> >
> >                 [/sbin/fsk.ext2] fsk.ext2 -a /dev/hda8
> >                 /dev/hda8 : contains a file system with errors, check forced
> >                 /dev/hda8 : Inode 4039 has illegal blocks
> >                 /dev/hda8 : UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY. RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>
> I found this rather disturbing.  The drive may be getting flaky.
>
>         - Kevin Colby
>           kevinc grainsystems com
>
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