[CentOS] Corrupt file systems
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Thu Jul 27 21:23:09 UTC 2006
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Russell Butturini wrote:
> Hello all:
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>
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> My company builds Linux based web content filters using CentOS 4.3
> as the base. We always apply updates to the new machines from the
> default repositories before deployment. Recently, the last two
> CentOS machines we built on Dell Dimension 1100s have failed, and
> the root file system seem to be getting corrupted. An e2fsck tries
> to recover the journal, but never repairs the machine enough to
> completely boot up. This only seems to be happening on the
> Dimension 1100s, as we have several other machines built with the
> same kernel version and software running on it that have not failed.
> The machines are Celeron-Ds, 2.4-2.8 Ghz, with either 256 or 512 MB
> of RAM and IDE hard disks.
We've got a handul of 1100s (actually, the 1100n model, mostly because
I love getting a printed copy of the GPL from Dell :-), with CentOS
4.3. No troubles to report.
Can you get to a recovery shell? If so, does 'smartctl -a /dev/hda'
provide any clues?
-- Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>
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