File System Errors

["Timothy A. Holmes" <tholmes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good Morning Everyone:

 

I was attempting to make an update to our webserver this morning, and got an error telling me that I did not have write permissions to a directory that I should have,  I sshed in and tried to check the permission, and change them, and received notification that my filesystem was read only.  This is an FC3 box running an ext3 file system.  I thought this to be extremely suspicious, so I went to the console to investigate.  When I got there, the screen was full of scrolling notices that there had been a journal exception. 

 

I rebooted the system, and when it came back telling me that the file system had been uncleanly unmounted, I forced the file system integrity check.  It promptly kicked me out to a shell, and told me to run the fsck command, which I did,  Its now running the command.

 

My question has four parts:

 

1. What happened?
2. What can I do to prevent it from happening again (this is the second time in 6 months that this has happened on this box)?
3. what else do I need to do to remedy it
4. is there any way that I could have known about this earlier, I interacted with the box last on Saturday afternoon, and it appeared happy then.

 

Any and all input that you might have would be appreciated.

 

TIM

 

 

Timothy A. Holmes

IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher

 

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