Silvan wrote: > Michael Bellears wrote: > > Googling on the above errors has given me very little hope of fixing the > > issue - But I am welcome to any suggestions as the server is about > > 1000km away! > > Buy a plane ticket? :-) Install the SMART tools? Assuming the drive is smart capable. apt-cache show smartsuite Or on sid: apt-cache show smartmontools Then see if that shows anything useful. > Hard drives sure don't seem to be as robust as they used to be. My > experience has been that once you get a glitch or two, the countdown > has started, and it's a short fuse before the drive becomes > completely useless. All efforts to stave off the inevitable seem to > amount to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. My experiences too. For critical servers such as that I would always use disk mirroring or other raid capability. Bob
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