Is new harddrive is refurbish? Did you talk to vendor? if hds are good run hdparm to see the harddisk info. If you find no complain partition it and install RHEL 4 or 5 to see how it behaves. Old Redhats are buggy some time. Does you raid controller see these new hard drives? On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Dr. Madhurjya P. Bora <mpbora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Members, > > We have an old IBM x225 series server with RAID 1 controller (Ultra 320) with two 36GB hard disk installed (as RAID 1 :/dev/sda). We have now acquired two compatible SCSI hard disks from IBM each with 146GB capacity. I have just inserted the HDs into the front empty slots and configured them as /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc (no raid, just two extra disks), each having only one large partition which is intended to hold some of the user files. > > I have partitioned them with fdisk and make an ext3 file system with journal. After that I copied the user data dir to the new partition with "cp -p" to preserve time-stamp and ownership and enabled quota. I then replaced the mounting label in /etc/fstab in the old disk with the new disk i.e. replacing /dev/sda2 with /dev/sdb1. > > The system works fine after reboot but after some time (say a day or two) the system complains of the new hard disk (/dev/sdb1) that it contains a filesystem with errors and get it to a fsck session which spans for about an hour. After that the system runs smoothly for about a day and again the same problem occurs. > > I am at my wits end as I can not see any procedural anamoly in my installation. BTW, the server runs Redhat8.0 (which came with it) and as it is just a machine containg some user files, we have not bothered replacing with a newer O/S. > > Thanks in advance > > --- Madhurjya > > ______________________________________ > Physics Department, Gauhati University > Guwahati 781014, India > http://www.guniv.ernet.in > ______________________________________ > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Regards. Sanjay Chakraborty -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
