how do i go about using fsck. I've tried fsck -A -C and it gave me a warning about mounted filesystems. Can i just unmount all of my partitions, fsck and then remount , or do i have to do it partition at a time? Jamie >From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Jamie Kerwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem >Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:57:00 -0400 > >On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:28, Jamie Kerwick wrote: > > Up until thursday night my linux box had been working perfectly now it > > keeps freezing up when i leave it on overnight. Now initially i thought >it > > my be a cron job that was crashing it as it seemed to happen at similar > > times. From the cron logs the last entry was 3am everynight. So i tried > > manually running each of the daily cron jobs seperately and they all >seemed > > to work fine (this was yesterday) now when i came to my desk this >morning > > the box had frozen at 5.09 pm (the clock was visible). Basically what i > > would like to know is how to go about finding out what the problem is, >ie > > what logs should i be looking at etc. (its a long shot but if anyone has > > any ideas please share, i don't expect any to though from such a vague, > > general description) > > > > cheers > > > > jamie > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp >updatedb or makewhatis > >My guess would be ide-hdd > >try to use an fsck check for your filesystem(s) and see what happens. > >The other obvious one would be memory, but usually that will show ALL the >time. > >Civileme _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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