RE: [cobalt-users] Re: Mounting partitions on old RAQ550 disk

["Bob Noordam" <mac@xxxxxxxx>]

>
> -----Original Message-----
> xfs mounts fine in a SuSE 8.x based system, you will even
> have xfs_repair
> and the likes ready, which can be VERY handy to repair
> damaged filesystems.
> Mounting in a RAQ4 didnt work for me with a corrupted raid
> disk, while the
> SuSE machine repaired flawless.
>
> B.
> -----End Original Message-----
>
> I'm still nog sure if the disk itself is damaged. Anyway, I'm
> downloading
> suse 8.2 and I'll install it on a seperate disk.
> I'm not familiar with suse and because this is off-topic, would you be
> willing to help me in the right direction off-list Bob. If
> needed I mean.
> Am I correct to understand that we both speak dutch... well
> flemish on my
> part ;-)
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John


no problem. If you have msn, add bno@xxxxxxxxxxxx it enables more direct
communication.

It is on topic in this sense; if a harddrive fails in a 550 and possibly
other models, many times corrupted data gets written to the other disk,
which is not defective, but will end up with a damaged up file system. I
have seen several times, that it leads to a non mountable partition (somehow
/var prefers to die). Sympton: the server starts booting, and goes into a
reboot loop. (last message on the display: startin clock, sometimes not even
that). general advise on the list: os restore. If you take 15 minutes to
mount the system in a Suse machine, and manualy mount and repair the
partitions, you can spare yourself a lot of time and effort.

B.