On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:19:24AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: > I'm looking after a Red Hat 7.3 machine that has an EXT3 fs on it. > > I've had 2 fs lock-ups over the last week that I suspect are HDD > problems.
Oh dear.. (had a spate of them myself recently, thank ghods for backups!) > This was the message I got last: > > Mar 17 18:27:25 firewall kernel: EXT3-fs warning (device ide0(3,1)): > ext3_clear_journal_err: Filesystem error recorded from previous > mount: IO failure That's the ext3 fs telling you that last time the filesystem was mounted there was an IO error of some sort, and that no fsck has happened in between to clear the error. > Can anyone suggest any tools for helping identify a HDD hardware > problem? If the harddrive supports SMART then there is a SMART program for Linux (Mandrake packages it as ide-smart, I suspect Deadrat will be the same). You will then be able to query the electronics of the drive to find out what it thinks its state is. > Or is it an EXT3 problem? Not sure, without some evidence from the logs it's hard to speculate. No matter what, it's certainly time for regular backups! > Thanks for any pointers. Good luck! Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
