"Andrew M.A. Cater" <amaca...@einval.com> writes: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 07:01:22PM +0100, john doe wrote: >> Debians, >> >> I'm seeing some alarming MSGs (E.G: ' blk_update_request: I/O error, dev >> sda, sector N') in my server's log. >> As it's read-only, I can not install smartmontools to investigate further. >> >> This server is to be used until a new server is ready, is there anything >> that I can do to keep it running? >> >> Any other ideas is welcome! >> >> -- >> John Doe >> > > Run, don't walk, to another computer and order new disks and shut this one > down immediately. If the file system has gone read only because of errors, > you need to shut it down NOW, maybe, and hope that you can recover data when > it boots up. > > Good luck, but it's probably too late.
+1 I have some time ago such messages and it WAS too late. (Regardless of daily backups ...) KJ -- http://stopstopnop.pl/stop_stopnop.pl_o_nas.html
