[Gllug] disk problems

[Sean Burlington]

Nix wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Sean Burlington suggested tentatively:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>I have a failing hard disk (my home partition seems fubared var is complaining but the rest seems OK for now)
> 
> 
> Join the club. After I lost two disks in a month-long period I went
> all-out and have now RAIDed the lot. No more disk death for *me*.
> 

It's my second disk failure in 2 years which is bad enough.

But 2 in a month !!!

Overheating is a possible cause with me - the box didn't really have 
enough room around it.

I think I'm going to make more effort to switch off overnight in future 
- it seems to me that it's boxes that get left on for months which have 
problmes.


> 
> What is `the system'? /etc/mtab (as used by df(1)) is maintained by
> mount(8) and is terribly unreliable; it's confused by mount --bind,
> per-process filesystems, chroot(8), mount --move, mount --rmove, subtree
> sharing, you name it, it confuses it.
> 
> /proc/mounts is maintained by the kernel and is actually reliable. What
>

this seems bad - here was no /proc/mounts


>>I then used grub interactively to boot from (hd1, 1) and specified the
>>kernel with parameter root=/dev/hdb1
> 
> 
> That should have worked. I'd say you're using /dev/hdb1 unless you have
> an initrd or initramfs that is ignoring root= (which would be terribly
> bad form).
> 

not using eiher of those

It's been a while since I deleved into grub so I thought maybe I was 
doing something wrong.

Oh well - I don't think there is much point avoiding the re-install at 
this point

Thanks for your help

-- 

Sean
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