Server 'freezing'

Rob Brandt yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Dec 19 19:11:01 2002


> I suspect my problem, as well as yours, is hard disk related.
> I've ran TechTools from OS9 and everything is fine except for
> the test it can't run: linux drive test.  The e2fsprogs suite,
> which fsck is part of, has a utility called badblocks which
> obviously checks your drive for bad blocks.  I have yet to try
> it.  My system is a production
> system so I'm a little leary about hosing the filesystem.

man badblocks advises that this command should be run through
e2fsck  with the -c parameter, which I did.  On two tries, at
(near?) identical places, I got "Segmentation Fault"s.  At which
time it seems to have crashed.

Advice?  Anyone?

Rob