Re: strange disk corruption

2004-11-22 Thread Eddy Jacob
This happend to me, and the problem was faulty memory. Use memtest86+ to check your memory, or as other users suggested before, was to check for bad cabling by doing dd of your harddisk partition into /dev/null On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:48:09 -0500, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTE

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-11-22 Thread Daniel B.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot. And just about every time it runs , it informs me that it fixed file system errors and reboots the system. Is it an IDE disk? Are you running with DMA enabled? Some versions of the kernel have a bug with s

Re: strange disk corruption - cables

2004-10-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The discussion concerning this thread tells me that my own > understanding of the issues at play is far below that of certain other > posters. However, I will humbly wonder aloud if the IDE cable is firmly > seated in the connectors at both

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-10-08 Thread gcrimp
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:57:05AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Whether or not this is related to debian is not clear, but it's possible. > > I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot. > > And just about every time it runs , it informs me that it fixed file > system e

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-10-08 Thread Nate Duehr
Alvin Oga wrote: So this problem has a history. I had previously been seeing corruption in the /dev directory and only the /dev directory. get a clean /dev from a clean system .. retoring /dev from a suspect corrupt system will only make things worst 1. the /dev directory seems to be somewhat d

Re: strange disk corruption - problem

2004-10-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya brian On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have 1 IDE cable with nothing but 1 HD and 1 CDROM on it. I keep > things simple to avoid exactly such problems. take off the cdrom .. and i bet your problems will disappear and new disk does not imply it's a gooouuudd drive.. you

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-10-07 Thread briand
> "Andrea" == Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrea> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:43:36 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrea> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> well that was silly. the fs is just ext2 2.6.8 kernel >> >> I haven't tried smartmontools. I will :-) >> Andrea> I'

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-10-07 Thread Shaul Karl
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:57:05AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Whether or not this is related to debian is not clear, but it's possible. > > I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot. > > And just about every time it runs , it informs me that it fixed file > system erro

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-10-07 Thread briand
> "Henrique" == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Henrique> On Thu, 07 Oct 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot. Henrique> Install the memtest86+ package, activate it in lilo/grub, Henrique> reboot. H

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-10-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:43:36 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well that was silly. > the fs is just ext2 > 2.6.8 kernel > > I haven't tried smartmontools. I will :-) > I've read at least two different claims of fs corruption with kernel 2.6.8-1 and reiserfs (i'm running b

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-10-07 Thread briand
> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alvin> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot. Alvin> why because it likes to fail, so I figure something must be wrong, so I'm running it more often. Alvin> it

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-10-07 Thread briand
well that was silly. the fs is just ext2 2.6.8 kernel I haven't tried smartmontools. I will :-) Brian > "Andrea" == Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrea> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 07:57:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrea> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Whether or not this

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-10-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot. Install the memtest86+ package, activate it in lilo/grub, reboot. Let it test your main memory for at least 12h. > 3. Could this be a bug in fsck ? Why doesn't fsck actually tell me

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-10-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot. why it will figure it out for itself > And just about every time it runs , it informs me that it fixed file > system errors and reboots the system. how do you shutdown ? ( exactly wh

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-10-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 07:57:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Whether or not this is related to debian is not clear, but it's possible. > > I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot. > > And just about every time it runs , it informs me that it fixed fi

strange disk corruption

2004-10-07 Thread briand
Whether or not this is related to debian is not clear, but it's possible. I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot. And just about every time it runs , it informs me that it fixed file system errors and reboots the system. However all other indicators of disk operation are