Catestrophic failure

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Collins Richey wrote:

> On 5/17/05, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
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>> Box Details: Dell Latitude C640, 2.3GHz P4 with 1GB RAM and 80GB
>> drive. SuSE 9.2 Professional with many bells and whistles as
>> supplied by SuSE.
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> Hmmm! Based on my prior experience
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> 1) SuSE probably equals reiserfs.

>
> 2) This is what always happened to me (2x) in the past with
> reiserfs. Never again in this lifetime.
>
Actually, it's EXT3.  I learned the hard way with reiserfs as well.


> Your choices:
>
> 1) Try again with SuSE and something sane like ext3 or xfs

Done a couple times.  SuSE 9.1pro and 9.2pro.

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> 2) Try another distro

Just loaded Kubuntu on there.  Unfortunately, in a corporate
environment, SuSE pro has always been my security blanket, a distro I
knew and knew to exist in a corporate net quite wonderfully.  Oddly
enough Kubuntu has "just too dang much software"  :)

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> 3) Checkout your disk controller/drives thoroughly.
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> Unfortunate but true, you get to keep all the pieces.
>
That's next.  I remember running an exhaustive memtest after last
time, and nothing happening bad.  This time I have to figure our if
something is hurting me.  Perhaps I'll have to write a tool which
sector-by-sector checks writing 1's and 0's.  Yes, I know there are
tools to do this, but none that I know of which save the data from the
sector and then write it back when done testing... :)


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