Re: [SLE] Reboot filesystem corruption

From: ken (gebser_at_speakeasy.net)
Date: 06/08/05

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    Peter Nikolic wrote:

    >On Monday 06 June 2005 21:16, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
    >
    >
    >>If I reboot or shutdown and boot, the filesystem is corrupted and boot
    >>stalls midway thru starting up services. Suspsend to swap and resume
    >>does not have this problem. Booting the rescue disk and running fsck
    >>on both root and home partition (ext3 and ReiserFS, respectively)
    >>fixes the problem. It is fairly consistent when it stalls if I try
    >>booting again. But when changes after FS repair. fscking the root
    >>partion alone is not sufficient. fscking both partitions works.
    >>
    >>IBM T41 ThinkPad. SuSE 9.2.
    >>
    >>Has anyone seen anything like this and have a solution?
    >>
    >>TIA,
    >> Jeffrey
    >>
    >>
    >
    >In the years i have been using Linux and Reiserfs this sort of problem is
    >nearley always the precursor to disc failure , If you have any important bits
    >on there get them off pronto is all i will say ..
    >
    >Pete .
    >

    The problem could also be a bad controller or simply a bad cable.
    (Don't panic until you have to.)

    Is the corruption appearing on the same partition each time? (This
    question makes sense only if you have more than one non-swap partition.)

    Also see "man badblocks".

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