Hi all! I had a problem on a debian box (not related to debian, I think it's hardware) but I'd like to ask here anyway. It's a 1.1 debian box with some upgrade to 1.2, pentium 166/64MB ram, ide disk and aha2940+dat tape (I know, I know server should never use ide - I'll switch to SCSI as soon as retailers open after summer vacations). The problem was fs error totally blocking the machine.
After a bad day spent fsck'ing an ide disk with file system inconsistencies (was that the word?) I was wondering if/how was possible to do some kind of scheduled-fsck checks for those machines that never reboot (well, almost never), something done weekly, monthly .. That would not eliminate fs errors (I have never seen fs errors on a linux box in 4 years), but would catch them early and on a regular base. I think this can be quite tricky, since when you check / you have nothing to write to (no mail/log file), and I'm not so sure what the best check order would be (check / first, check it last), and I don't know if cron can be run on a system in that state. Before the crash, that system showed strange messages that were never logged anywhere. I don't have them, since I was not there when machine stopped, but I wonder why file system inconsistencies are not logged. Some weeks ago we had messages saying something like "bad pdm .." I wrote it on a piece of paper, so I can send it if this can help understand what happened. Those messages were not logged too (that's why I understimated them). Thanks for your help/suggestion/comments. Thanks to all developers for their gooood work. -- || || ||||||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, Italy Microsoft is the question ||| ||| |||'' [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No" is the answer ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .