On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:55:26 +0200 Leseney Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I rent a dedicated server (running RH 8.0) and every now and then, I > get this error on bash command line. > > Running any command that requires write access on the disk (touch > /tmp/foo for instance) results in " Input/output error". The only way > I've found so far to get back to normal operation is to hard reboot > the machine. After the reboot, the system works fine for a > day/week/month and the same problem occurs again. > > My hosting provider claims that it has nothing to do with the server > itself and that it is due to a software misuse. A few Linux admins > told me that this could be related to a disk hardware or driver problem. > > I did not find any definitive documentation on that and I'm a bit at a loss about > what to do... > Any thoughts about this problem ? > > Thanks a lot, > > Tom > > Tom, As a first step towards solving this you need to run a manual fsck against your filesystem to see if there is anything wrong with it. Some filesystem corruption may be triggering the problem you're seeing. I'm pretty sure other people have seen the exact same problem as you. Cheers, Sean -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
