on 1-29-2009 9:02 AM Anne Wilson spake the following: > 2009/1/29 Scott Silva <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> on 1-29-2009 8:30 AM Anne Wilson spake the following: >>> 2009/1/29 Alex H. Vandenham <alex-qMVNeVs1MAKw5LPnMra/2Q-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>>> On Thursday 29 January 2009 10:15:38 am Anne Wilson wrote: >>>>> I assume that the hdd is failing - but I haven't seen any messages >>>>> from smartmontools. Is there any way I can check that? If it is I >>>>> don't want to waste time trying to repair it. >>>> try smartctl to see what the monitors have been finding for you. >>>> >>>> man smartctl >>>> >>> Thanks. I'd been trying to remember what command I needed for that :-) >>> >>> The short test has completed without errors. I'll run the long test >>> during dinner. Assuming that that also runs without errors, I guess >>> that the next thing is memtest? >>> >>> More suggestions? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Anne >> If you had many power failures, the filesystem might just be severely trashed. >> Journals and files out of sync, etc... If a good fsck didn't fix it, you might >> just be in for a wipe-reinstall, or many hours of finding and fixing corrupted >> files.. I would install to a new drive, and then you can take some time >> recovering from the old drive as you find things missing. That way you will >> still have the old system for whatever might come up. I always seem to find >> something that didn't get backed up properly. >> > Two days ago I discovered that the failures had indeed totally trashed > the system. I did re-install, formatting only / and /boot, but I've > had a couple of these spontaneous shutdowns since then, which is why I > suspected hardware failure. > > I've got copies of just about everything, I think, on an external > drive, and I could try another drive as you suggest, mounting the old > one in an external case, which I have. I can cope with this, but I'm > deeply unhappy about not knowing what happened, and whether it is > likely to happen again. > > Anne Are the failures power related, or is the system just shutting down on its own? If the latter, I would suspect either a power supply or a processor fan. If the former, maybe you need to invest in an inexpensive UPS. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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