>I've been having major stability issues over the last week with my >alix box and 0.6 build. I have tracked it down to disk corruption >taking place on the CF card in the asturw partition. Things seem to >be exasperated by constant updates to the flash card from CDR and >syslogs, etc that we've been discussing in another thread. Here is >an example of today's heartache... > >On booting... > >Configuring for unionfs... >Checking asturw filesystem >ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining >whether /dev/ >hda2 is mounted. > > >ASTURW: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. > (i.e., without -a or -p options) >Fsck detected errors on /dev/hda2 (4) >/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off ># > >Then on removing the CF card and attaching to my CentOS box to diagnose... > >[r...@localhost ~]# fsck /dev/sdb2 >fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) >e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) >ASTURW contains a file system with errors, check forced. >Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes >Extended attribute block 131557 has reference count 35, should be >33. Fix<y>? yes > >Pass 2: Checking directory structure >Entry 'sysinfo_output71.html' in >/stat/var/lib/asterisk/static-http/config (61833) has deleted/unused >inode 61838. Clear<y>? yes > >Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity >Pass 4: Checking reference counts >Pass 5: Checking group summary information >Block bitmap differences: -149504 >Fix<y>? yes > >Free blocks count wrong for group #4 (32269, counted=32270). >Fix<y>? yes > >Free blocks count wrong (211504, counted=211505). >Fix<y>? yes > >Inode bitmap differences: -61838 >Fix<y>? yes > >Free inodes count wrong for group #4 (15442, counted=15443). >Fix<y>? yes > >Free inodes count wrong (107849, counted=107850). >Fix<y>? yes > > >ASTURW: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** >ASTURW: 342/108192 files (0.6% non-contiguous), 4711/216216 blocks >[r...@localhost ~]# > >After running fsck and placing the CF card back into the alix box, I >boot again OK and everything seems fine. But as the system has >locked up on me (no calls, no internet access, cannot ssh in) a few >times recently I'm getting worried. > >All I can think of is that my CF card is going bad. It's a cheap >Adata 1GB and I have two of them both of which are exhibiting the >problem. What would be a more robust card? > >Thanks >David
Hi David, I only use SanDisk "Ultra II" and "Extreme III" 1 GB or bigger CF cards in several systems (mostly Soekris and i386) and never had any problem. BTW: If you don't use "PERSISTLOG=yes" the syslog (and "/var") should go to tmpfs (run "mount" to check). Michael -- Email: mailto:mkeu...@web.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
