On Friday 30 January 2009 09:32:27 Sorin Srbu wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > > Behalf Of Scott Silva > >Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:37 PM > >To: centos at centos.org > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > > > >If you had many power failures, the filesystem might just be severely > > trashed. Journals and files out of sync, etc... If a good fsck didn't fix > > it, you might just be in for a wipe-reinstall, or many hours of finding > > and fixing corrupted files.. [...] > > A UPS hasn't previously been mentioned AFAICT, or possibly I missed it... > You do have one connected, don't you? > > The controlled shutdown a UPS usually offers at power/brownouts, is a > really good solution IMHO. > The APC unit has had more to handle lately than you should reasonably expect. It wasn't getting chance to recharge before the next incident. I'm not blaming it. Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090130/0623ad26/attachment-0005.sig>