On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 14:48:40 -0500, Henry Hartley <henryhartley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is there something I should be doing to prevent this sort of thing? On a Are you running a journalled file system? Are you backing up? I'm not sure I agree with the suggestion about RAID. If the drives are failing because of age then when one fails, you're going to have to replace them all. But frankly, I don't believe that they're dying of age - I've had drives last for over 3 years with 24 hour a day usage with only one or two reboots. I'm also curious as to why things would be corrupt in /usr//sbin - nothing should be being written there except when you're installing software, so it's unlikely to have unflushed buffers. But perhaps you just have one big partition? I like to use lots of partitions (separate partitions for /, /var, /usr, /tmp, /home at least) so that what goes on in one partition isn't as likely to affect the others. -- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Teddy Roosevelt
