In most cases these damages are not physical.
You can check the current status of teh disk partitions by checking them.
fsck - check and repair a Linux file system utility.
There are also different species of this utility (fsck.minix, fsck.ext2 or e2fsck, fsck.xiafs, etc)
corresponding to the partition type. You can check how to use it by man fsck.
In case you suspect that the disk might have more seriuos damages (e.g. surface problems)
the command badblocks should be used.
Caution!!! All the checks should be done in a single mode with the partition being checked NOT MOUNTED.
You can load your system from the floppy disk and have it running on the ram-disk.
In case you decide to run read-write test, you should make a copy of data from the partition being checked.
Good luck. Ray
Evan Brown wrote:
I don't have anything else right now, if it does it again I will though. We had a power outage here last week, could that have affected my file system enough to cause this? is there some kind of scandisk utility to fix stuff besides the integrity check on boot?
Evan Brown
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:49:03 +0200, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maybe the problem is in hardware. Example: disk damage or bad sectors. Can You provide more output before the kernel panic?
Ray
Evan Brown wrote:
I have a rh 8 box, we are using it as a file server and small webserver here at work. It seems that every morning when I get in it's crashed. this just started happening this week. I haven't installed anything new on it. We're running Samba,Apache,Tomcat and thats about it. just now while rebooting and checking drive integrity it paniced so I had to re-reboot it. Any suggestions my kernal version is 2.4.20-20.8 (psyche).
Evan Brown
