fsck inadequacies
Kent Stewart
kstewart at owt.com
Fri Nov 26 23:54:36 PST 2004
On Friday 26 November 2004 03:16 pm, Mardoc Inc wrote:
> I run a FreeBSD system at a remote site. It costs me over $4000 to
> visit the site (northern arctic).
> It, along with some other equipment, runs off 2 x 50 kW diesel
> generators which are swapped by a mechanic once per week. The
> swap-over takes less than a minute. The computer runs
> off a UPS, which easily holds its charge during the swap.
All of the UPSes that I have used come with a warning that the battery
will eventually need to be replaced. Are you sure the UPS is still
good?
>
> But, unlike the other windows systems that run up there, the FreeBSD
> system seems incredibly
> prone to disk corruption. Often the system will not reboot, and hangs
> while it asks for a file check.
> I can't do that remotely - it has to be a person.
> I frequently need to run fsck, and that does not always work. It is
> hard to instruct a diesel mechanic on such matters from such a
> distance. "fsck -y"
> usually does not work either.
>
I had a power outage 4 days ago. When I got into the room, the 4
computers were still running. Since the power outage was supposed to
last more than 3 hours, which was well beyond their capability, I shut
them all down. They were running just fine when I shut them down and
the all booted normally.
I would tend to agree with the suggestion that your computer is failing.
If fsck -y doesn't work, my HD has always developed bad sector(s) and
the HD needs to be replaced. YMMV
Kent
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