Re: strange disk corruption
well that was silly.
the fs is just ext2
2.6.8 kernel
I haven't tried smartmontools. I will :-)
Brian
>>>>> "Andrea" == Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com> writes:
Andrea> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 07:57:05 -0700, briand@aracnet.com
Andrea> <briand@aracnet.com> wrote:
>> Whether or not this is related to debian is not clear, but it's
>> possible.
>>
>> I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot.
>>
>> And just about every time it runs , it informs me that it fixed
>> file system errors and reboots the system.
>>
>> However all other indicators of disk operation are just fine. I
>> can moved 3+ GB files around, there is no funny core dumps or
>> segfaults from executables, kernel compiles work fine, etc...
>>
>> So this problem has a history. I had previously been seeing
>> corruption in the /dev directory and only the /dev directory.
>> Duplicate file names, files which could not be deleted, etc...
>> The only way to fix was to reboot with a rescue disk and wipe the
>> /dev directory and start over. Unfortunately I had to do this
>> several times.
>>
>> Naturally I wonder if my current problem and the previous are
>> related.
>>
>> So here are some of the possibilities:
>>
>> 1. the /dev directory seems to be somewhat dynamic, could there
>> be a debian start-up script which is/was somehow corrupting the
>> /dev directory ?
>>
>> 2. Do I have bad blocks on the disk ? And how would I check
>> this? Again, I've seen no other evidence whatsoever of flaky
>> disk behavior ?
>>
>> 3. Could this be a bug in fsck ? Why doesn't fsck actually tell
>> me what the errors are !! It just says "fixed them - rebooting".
>> isn't this a Bad Thing (TM) ?
>>
>> Aaargh ! My linux box is acting like a windows box, it's so
>> depressing !
>>
Andrea> Filesystem used and kernel version? Have you tried to
Andrea> install the "smartmontools" package to check your HD?
Andrea> Andrea
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