Hello Geoffrey, All the hardware in question are via the standard onboard IDE connections, but that's a great point, I do have a couple systems with 3ware RAID cards, best keep an eye on those. -- Best regards, Mickael mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thursday, March 10, 2005, 1:59:36 PM, you wrote: GG> Return-Path: <centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> GG> Received: from c1m14.emaildefenseservice.com GG> (c1m14.emaildefenseservice.com [216.40.36.47]) GG> by phoenix.silverservers.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j2ANE8Vt032101 GG> for <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:14:08 -0800 GG> Received: from mail.caosity.org [69.93.111.165] (EHLO mail.caosity.org) GG> by c1m14.emaildefenseservice.com (mxl_mta-1.3.8-10p6) GG> with ESMTP id 8c7d0324.28783.050.c1m14; GG> Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:27:04 -0500 (EST) GG> Received: from caos1.caosity.org (caos1 [127.0.0.1]) GG> by mail.caosity.org (Postfix) with ESMTP GG> id C1829B3010E; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:59:42 +0000 (UTC) GG> X-Original-To: centos@xxxxxxxxxxx GG> Delivered-To: centos@xxxxxxxxxxx GG> Received: from calmail-be3.berkeley.edu GG> (mailfarm.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.61.106]) GG> by mail.caosity.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EF5CB300A3 GG> for <centos@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:59:37 +0000 (UTC) GG> Received: from [128.32.50.7] (account galitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) GG> by calmail-be3.berkeley.edu (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 4.2.6) GG> with HTTP id 5149795 for centos@xxxxxxxxxxx; GG> Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:59:36 -0800 GG> From: "Geoffrey Galitz" <galitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> GG> Subject: Re: [Centos] fsck -Broke? GG> To: CentOS discussion and information list <centos@xxxxxxxxxxx> GG> X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser Interface v.4.2.6 GG> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:59:36 -0800 GG> Message-ID: <web-5149795@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> GG> In-Reply-To: <1242999433.20050310133012@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> GG> References: <1242999433.20050310133012@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> GG> MIME-Version: 1.0 GG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" GG> X-BeenThere: centos@xxxxxxxxxxx GG> X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 GG> Precedence: list GG> Reply-To: CentOS discussion and information list <centos@xxxxxxxxxxx> GG> List-Id: CentOS discussion and information list <centos.caosity.org> GG> List-Unsubscribe: GG> <http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>, GG> <mailto:centos-request@xxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> GG> List-Archive: <http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos> GG> List-Post: <mailto:centos@xxxxxxxxxxx> GG> List-Help: <mailto:centos-request@xxxxxxxxxxx?subject=help> GG> List-Subscribe: GG> <http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>, GG> <mailto:centos-request@xxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> GG> Sender: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx GG> Errors-To: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx GG> X-MX-Spam: final=0.0230263158; heur=0.5000000000(-26400); GG> stat=0.0100000000; spamtraq-heur=0.7000000000(2005031001) GG> X-MX-MAIL-FROM: <centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> GG> X-MX-SOURCE-IP: [69.93.111.165] GG> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit GG> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by GG> phoenix.silverservers.com id j2ANE8Vt032101 GG> X-UIDL: "g%"!AjU!!jR9"!*>T!! GG> Is there anything unusual about the disk subsystem? Were GG> the device drivers installed from an alternate source (e.g. GG> 3w-9xxx)? I've seen this behavior immediately following updates GG> when a new kernel is installed but the device driver is not GG> carried forward. GG> -geoff GG> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:30:12 -0800 GG> Mickael Maddison <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello CentOS, >> >> I've had cause to upgrade some 3.x machines that had a few ext2 >> partitions to ext3 (long story). Anyway, did the tune2fs -j /foo and >> the journal is created. changed fstab to ext3 >> >> Ok, that's fine. But in a couple cases, the machine was to be >> rebooted in the 300day uptime range. upon reboot, the machine stated >> that /foo was due for an fsck. Well, fsck sat there twiddling it's >> thumbs indefinitely. I had to reboot to CDROM, and fsck from linux >> rescue (which had no troubles). Then once fsck'd exit and reboot went >> fine. >> >> Is this a problem with fsck, or ? I've never known fsck to hang >> before. It usually does it's job or spits out an error. >> >> Of course, now that I know that, for most partitions I can unmount and >> fsck before rebooting. sigh >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Mickael >> mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@xxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos GG> ---------------------------------------------------------- GG> Geoff Galitz GG> Chemistry Research Computing, UC Berkeley GG> galitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx GG> _______________________________________________ GG> CentOS mailing list GG> CentOS@xxxxxxxxxxx GG> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos GG> __________ NOD32 1.1023 (20050310) Information __________ GG> This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. GG> http://www.nod32.com