-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 15 Sep 2005 at 10:17, chris wrote: Date sent: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:17:07 -0600 From: chris <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: file system corruption Send reply to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > Hi all, > > I am trying to figure out whats going on with a system of mine, I have a > fairly cheap IDE drive in it (160GB Western Digital), but over the past > 2 weeks 2 of the partitions ("/" and "/home") have been corrupted. They > are both formatted ext3, and one of them is the root for FC4. > > I don't see any errors in /var/log/messages, and am not sure where to > look. I just want to verify the drive is going out before replacing it. > > Can anyone point me in the direction of some sw tools are out there to > help in diagnosing the problem? > > -chris I would suggest running the memory test, I had a new AMD64 machine that was getting corruption on the drive files, and after reinstalling twice, ran the memory test, and found that one of the two memory moduals in the machines was failing the memory test on test 8. Running on the single modual the machine had no problems, and got the vendor to replace the set, and ran test. If you don't have it installed on you system, you could also run it off the ultimate bood cd. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu Number of Seti Units Returned: 17,812 Processing time: 31 years, 309 days, 22 hours, 36 minutes (Total Hours: 278,999) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 -- QDPGP 2.61c Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBQykcWizGQcr/2AKZEQJ9LQCguTOKW9Zd9lLt9JlGOBTHkWuWVr8AnRaM yGpk1IW4gf2ygh8G1MDXLFxf =SXuz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
