Could not hurt to unmount the FS and fsck it, hopefully its a non production system or one you can do it on =\
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 15:17, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > I have a drive that is consistently giving me file system errors. > This drive holds a very large number of files, very active files. It's > a backup, and cache drive for a web application, so several GB of data > gets transferred to and from it every night. Now, the drive's SMART > capability has not reported any errors what so ever with the physical > drive, yet I keep getting FS errors. Cross links, duplicate blocks, bad > i_nodes, bad i_blocks, illegal blocks, wrong dtime, just to mention a few. > > Should I trust the drive's SMART system and assume the drive itself > it fine and may just need the FS recreated (deleting the partition and > then recreating it and rebuilding the FS), or should I consider pitching > the drive and just get a new one? > > -- > W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. > +-------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . 303.442.6410 x130 > IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 > Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 > http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. > > -- Richie Crews Unix Administrator / Internet Integrator Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: (706) 773 - 3436 Desk: (706) 634 - 3681 Fax: (706) 634 - 3831 "Providing security for your email needs" Stop Spam, Support RBL http://www.mail-abuse.org -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
