On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:20:40PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > >hi ya > >On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, George Georgalis wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:43:21PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: >> >Do you know what's wrong with this hard drive, or how to troubleshoot it? >> >It's almost brand new, but is it a warranty item? >> >> who knows maybe it's software error, but more likely a loss of power >> while running/writting, but much much more likely a disk failure. >> >> anyway, you can use the -y option in fsck to answer yes to all the >> questions. > >the system will fsck your disk if its not properly shutdown > >using "-y" to fsck is a bad idea, unless oyu know why its fsck'ing in the >first place > - if its bad mmory... i dont want the disk touched > >assuming that it was shutdown properly ... >- if your bios time is whacky... so can fsck... > >- if you have bad memory... it will try to fix the drive according to > its bad memory content.... > >- if its a brand new disk... there probably wasnt anything > wrong with it if it installed and was rebooted a few times > before the last sleep of 2 months > >- somebody else played with your system and powered it off incorrectly > >the magic pixie dust did it > >your best bet is to re-install again... > if it happens again..swapp out either the memory or disk > or maybe even a bad cpu that has gone bonkers >
Interesting points worth considering.... but if you do decide to run fsck, I don't see any reason not to use -y I don't know when humans wouldn't answer 'y' during a check anyway... Regards, // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
