Re: which log to diagnose crash

["Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

marcus wrote,

> > It didn't sync the disks, so we got to wait while it e2fsck'd a pair of 
> > 4G drives (*sigh*  at least the third disk had been disconnected.  I 
> > need to poke around and figure out how to get it to do the two scsi 
> > drives simultaneously . . .).

> Syncing the disks is not the same as marking them as clean (e2fsck will
> check the clean flag to decide if to check or not). Syncing just ensures
> that the cache is cleared, so all changes made in the cache are written
> to disk, this minimalizes data loss.

err, yeah :)  i meant that it didn't dismount them :)  I assume it also 
didn't sync, but that's the least of my worries . . .

> You can try /var/log/*, especially kernel.log and syslog, but it did not
> help me, I only found some binary trash.

thanks.  I didn't even get binary trash :(

rick

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