HI, This is more general linux related topic , i want to know few basic things. 1) How file systeem get corrupted on linux? 2) why,when and how fsck to be run without lossing data? 3) Is there is any other tool other than fsck available for file system check . 4) what are all the precaution to be made to prevent file system corruption. 5) why & when the system will get hanged and what are all the possible reasons? If any one provide me suitable links providing all of the above information in detail it will be quite usefull. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080821/ae482e3f/attachment-0003.html>