On Monday 01 May 2006 18:25, Andrew Errington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I have had trouble with my Linux box crashing (or rather,
> hanging).  Until last week it had an uptime of over a year, but now it
> has frozen after a couple of hours and a couple of days.
As a simple starter, I'd let memtest86 run overnight.

[ ... ]

> Even though this has only happened a few times I marvel at the
> robustness of the filesystem.
Which is?

> Everything comes back with no trouble, 
> and KDE starts up just how I left it.
Don't get yourself lured into a false sense of security, and imagine that 
backing up is no longer needed.

-- 
CS

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