On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:15:04AM +0200, Raven wrote: > Hi all. > I am in a sticky situation. I run remotely a server and one of the disks > is starting to fail. > Every couple days (or more, depends on the www traffic level) scsi drive > sdc fails (with "rejecting I/O to device bla bla bla"). This a BIG > problem because my /usr resides on sdc1, and everytime it happens I have > to send somebody to kill the server and restart it. > > I figured, since I do not have physical access to the server, that the > best choice would be copying the whole /usr to another drive and (hoping > there are no problems while copying) change the required stuff in fstab. > > Before starting blindly cp'ing files, I would like to hear your advice > on the process and if I have any chance of succeeding (or if you have > another method that would work better)
BTW: to make things a bit less sticky (maybe after the copy): install debsums. Its data is stored under /var . -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
