SOLVED: Corruption

[J.L. Coenders]

I solved the problems, it was a bad DIMM. I got it out now and:
- memtest86 is succesfull
- disk diagnostics are succesfull
- touch /forcefsck reports no more problems
- tarring and gzipping works perfectly for all situations

Only problem now is that I have half my RAM ;)
Thanks for the help, guys.

Jeroen


On Saturday 01 May 2004 07:59, J.L. Coenders wrote:
> Rick, Chris, and the rest of this list,
>
> I am running ext2, but I think I have already found the problem with the
> help of another mailinglist, but thanks anyway.
>
> The Maxtor diagonistics tool gives no problems, but memtest86 gives two bad
> addresses, which probably gives me my problem.
>
> Jeroen
>
> On Saturday 01 May 2004 00:06, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > Chris Hewitt wrote:
> > > Rick Stevens wrote:
> > >> J.L. Coenders wrote:
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>> Does anyone know how to check for corrupt files/disks, etc.? I have
> > >>> some issues archiving my Mail directory (see subject: Tar/Zip/Rar
> > >>> trouble) and am wondering if anyone knows how to check this?
> > >>
> > >> There's no way to check for corrupt files because there's no way to
> > >> know what's supposed to be in the file in the first place.  The only
> > >
> > > I've not been following this thread so this may have been mentioned
> > > before (if so I apologise).
> >
> > It's not much of a thread, Chris.  Just one message before my pithy
> > (or should that be "pathetic") response.
> >
> > >                            If you are having so much trouble with file
> > > corruption that you are looking for a way to check for it then there is
> > > probably something fundermental wrong. I would suggest running fsck
> > > anyway, but it could be that you disc drive is on the way out. What
> > > filesystem are you using? ext2/ext3 are pretty robust, but ReiserFS is
> > > reported to be more liable to corruption that some others.
> >
> > Very true.  reiserfs is faster than greased owl droppings but you pay
> > for that with filesystem fragility.  Me?  I like cast-iron filesystems.
> > I've spent too many late nights futzing with recoveries.
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