Ubuntu Ibex on single SATA Seagate disk, ext3

[Tweeks]

But when Linux crashes.. it tends NOT to just automatically reboot (unless 
specifically set up to do so).  It usually either black screens, sig-faults, 
or stops.

Tweeks



On Friday 13 March 2009, Stephen Samuel wrote:
> One question I have  is: why is the system repeatedly rebooting?? The
> answer to that question may
> point to something about why you're losing data.
>
> I tend to find that, with Linux (and unlike some other OSs
> [cough]WIndows[cough]), repeated
> crashes tend to point to some kind of hardware error, and -- where there's
> a software source to
> the crashes -- there are people who are genuinely interested in(and capable
> of) resolving the problem.
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Tweeks <tweeks at rackspace.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 March 2009, James McKain [Gmail] wrote:
> > > I'm having a strange problem I've never seen before.  Sometimes my
> > > system crashes, and upon restart I am missing *at least* a handful of
> > > files.
> >
> >  They
> >
> > > are completely gone and untraceable.  At first I forced fsck on reboot,
> >
> > and
> >
> > > that helped recover some of them, but the problem continues.  I have no
> > > clue even where to start tracing this.  Can anyone help?  The system is
> > > a new AMD Phenom on a SATA Seagate 1Tb disk.  Ubuntu Ibex is the only
> > > OS loaded, on ext3 partitioned 5 ways.
> > >
> > > My system just crashed today, and now that I'm back up and running
> > > there
> >
> > is
> >
> > > one file in particular that is completely gone.  I haven't touched this
> > > file in months, and it just up and disappeared.
> > >
> > > I checked with Seagate to see if my drive was part of the recall, it's
> >
> > not.
> >
> > > (so they say)
> >
> > Test it using smart:
> >
> > # smartctl -T permissive -d ata -s on /dev/sda
> > # smartctl -T permissive -d ata -t long /dev/sda && sleep 2h && smartctl
> > -T permissive -d ata -l selftest /dev/sda
> >
> > If the output is all %00, then the drive is passing it's self test.  If
> > it's
> > failing before it reached %00 (down form 100%) then it's failing.. get
> > your stuff off asap.
> >
> > Tweeks
> >
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