[ale] RAID

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 08:48, Brandon Colbert wrote:
> I have redhat's software raid 1 setup on a server. This server ran 200 
> days straight. But over the pass month, I have been noticing some 
> strange problems: unable to move files, the permissions for /bin/ls 
> changed, using more memory, when ever I type df -h, it returns 
> *"segmentation fault," *and now  it will not boot up.  Could it be that 
> the RAID is corrupted, if so how do I repair it? What is the cause of 
> this problem, and how do I fix it?
> 
This sounds more like a cracked box than a RAID problem. Check the
syslogs for notices from the md subsystem. If you see things that
indicate a drive is dying, then it's a RAID problem. If you see a gap in
the logs (or no logs) then you have a bigger, much worse problem.

Boot it with a Knoppix CD 

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