On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:39:22 -0400 "WLM" == William L Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
WLM> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 20:27 +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: >> <snip>
>> Is there a way to say: "Hey RPM, have a look whether really the >> files in your database are on the disk)" ?
WLM> Use rpm's verify option. I forget the exact syntax: I'm sorry WLM> to have to sentence you to the rpm manpage dungeon. :-(
Thanks. I was looking for the keyword "check" in man-pages (shows you that half the art in searching is knowing "for what")
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:51:16 -0500 "LM" == Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
LM> Bernhard Gschaider wrote: >> OK. I managed to beat the machine into submission. But a slight >> incertainty remains.
LM> I'd be concerned about the initial filesystem error perhaps LM> being hardware related. You might try a 'cat /dev/sda LM> >/dev/null' to force a full disk read, then 'smartctl -a LM> /dev/sda' to see if the health still looks OK.
Thanks. That's one of the things that never come up in the "System administration for half-wits"-books that I usually read