I just thought to run e2fsck -f on the LVM volume mapped to /home. This reported a clean volume.
I'm not at all knowledgeable about LVM, so last week when I installed from the rhel6 "server" iso, I quickly accepted all the defaults. The hardware is two identical 2-terabyte sata drives. LVM assigned / with a few dozen gigs to one LVM volume and it assigned about 3.6 gigs to /home on another LVM volume. The filesystem type is ext4, again the default. I hope to avoid a clean reinstall until that's clearly the next step, which perhaps it is at this point. If I do that -- and I would use the "workstation" iso this time -- should I request ext3 instead of ext4, and should I try to get the installer to set up the two drives as separate logical volumes and not use LVM? Are there any additional hardware-checking tools to try besides e2fsck? On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Jesse Keating wrote: jesse> This really sounds like a hardware issue, jesse> your file system is going in and out of jesse> whack. jesse> jesse> What filesystem are you using for jesse> /home(/billyk) and what's the hardware jesse> backing it?
