Topic: Harddisk disaster

[Tue Arnkil]

I've had a major crash on BOTH 40 Gb harddisks in my E-smith 4.2 server. When I try to boot, e-smith automatically runs a check for duplicate data and bad sectors. After 62 % it stops, and sends me to a shell. I can run MC, but e-smith doesn't start up. The server runs RAID1, but the filesystem on both disks are corrupt.
Is there anything I can do to bring my server back to life, and save data for all pupils and teachers ?

[Bobby]

I had a crash after an electrical storm.  e-Smith would only let me boot to some sort of  a shell I was not familiar with.

I did some investigation in my Linux manuals and was able to get the file system happy again.

I believe I ran fsck.

Format is:

fsck /dev/hda1 (This is for just hda1.  You need to put in the drive parameters as needed.)

There are many more knowledgable folks here that may be of more help, but this worked for me.

Good luck.

~Bobby

[Tue Arnkil]

Bobby wrote:
>
> I had a crash after an electrical storm.  e-Smith would only
> let me boot to some sort of  a shell I was not familiar with.

Same here - except that I think my harddisks are overheated. I get that shell-thing too.

>
> I did some investigation in my Linux manuals and was able to
> get the file system happy again.
>
> I believe I ran fsck.
>
> Format is:
>
> fsck /dev/hda1 (This is for just hda1.  You need to put in
> the drive parameters as needed.)
I'll try - thanks.
>
> There are many more knowledgable folks here that may be of
> more help, but this worked for me.
>
> Good luck.
>
> ~Bobby

[Henry Li]

fsck -t ext2 /dev/hda6

worked for me, you may have to run fsck on each file system.

good luck!