On Monday 28 March 2005 14:12, Duncan Anderson wrote: > SOTL wrote: > >You missed the point. > > > >I was doing NOTHING with the root file system. > > > >I was simply coping data files [5 gb worth] from one directory to another. > > OK. I misunderstood. Were the two directories on the same hard disk or > what? > > cheers > Duncan
There were 3 failures each slightly different all occurred while I was using MC under very heavy load. HD Failure # 3 A more detail explanation of the last failure in which I was transferring a file. I had copied files from one computer into the computer I had named Reality_Check [after the commic book characters] but I not placed them in my desired location for some reason or the other. Backpedal Reality_Check was set up with hda1 /boot as a 100 MB ext3 partition hda2 extended partition hda3 / as 8 GB ext3 partition hda4 swap 800 MB hda5 /home 8 GB ext3 with one user branch hda6 /home/branch/System_Data ~=43 GB Data Directory When I had copied data into Reality_Check I had placed it in /home/branch. I had meant to place it into /home/branch/System_Data Data comsisted of 13 directories as initially transferred. Later on reflection I deleted 7 of these directories as ones I did not want in that computer leaving 6 directories of data. The directory, My_Picture I was moving consists of NASA space and earth and construction site jpg and tif picture files from NASA with the following structure. My_Picture Subdirectories 1. Construction Project Which has five sub directories 1-1 date directory 1 1-2 date directory 2 1-3 name directory -1 1-4 name directory -2 1-5 name directory -3 Subdirectory 2. Icons Which has 3 Subdirectories 2-1 Tux_Pictures 2-2 Tux_Icons 2-3 BSD_Pictures Subdirectory 3. NASA Pictures Which has 3 sub directories 3-1 NASA-Space 3-2 NASA-Earth 3-3 NASA-Scientific_Images Total is about 5 GB of data files. At the time of the last failure I had decided to use MC to transfer files as previous transfer had been by root so root permission was required to move directory structure. Half way through move of files from /home/branch to /home/branch/System_Data computer stopped and refused to continue with HD making strange clicking sounds. Inspection showed trashed root directory HD Failure # 2 Previous failure was when I was using MC when I enter / as start point of search searching for test-XX where XX in file names is 01 to roughly 20. Each of the test files contained at maximum 100 characters. There were a number of such files as they had been credited over a period on a month and my objection was to consolidate the ones I wanted and delete the ones I did not want. Half way through the search the computer stopped with the HD making beating clicking sounds. For the search crash I was using MC as a user NOT as root. Also the HD was set up with partitions exactly as it would later be and as noted above for the third HD failure HD Failure # 1 The details of the first crash are to foggy to relate exact details of events. Frank
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