23 Jan
2004
23 Jan
'04
23:12
On Friday 23 January 2004 20:35, Andreas Winkelmann wrote:
Another reason can be, a broken harddisk or filesystem. First you can test with badblocks, second with fsck. fsck depends on your used filesystem. For reiserfs use reiserfsck. Try both with the rescue-system.
Not all hard disk problems can be detected with tools though. One system I used to have almost always crashed overnight, and there was never any visible problem with the hard drive. Until, that is, it finally gave up completely and refused to even power up. Before that happened, every tool said everything was just peachy. Once a new hdd was in, the system was stable as a rock