Re: Linux crash aid request

[Chris Albertson <calbertson logicon com>]

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.
> 

Those messages were printed when the system tried to come back up.  They
were not printed just before the system failed.  My guess is that you had
a power failure and when the system tried to come back up when the power
was restored found a problem.  This is what happens when you don't do a
proper shutdown.  Get an UPS.  One with a serial port interface and set
it up to do an automatic shutdown on power fail.

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