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On 19/01/01 at 9:32 jack wallen, jr wrote:
>my hard drive is failing (running Red Hat 7.0) and last night i discovered
>it making the insidious 'clicking sound' only when trying to log to
>/var/log/messages or /var/log/secure. when i took a look at messages i
>discovered it had grown to over 11 gigs (don't ask me how) and i couldn't
>read then end of the file (obviously). someone had hit me 5 times per
>second for nearly 12 hours! i'm assuming this might have to do with the
>ramen worm. anyway...i simply removed both messages and secure and
>'touched' new files in their places.
>
>could this physical error be due to the oversized file (and the attempts
>to write to it)?
A physical error would be just that, it would be caused by use in general,
a clicking noise as you describe would have me thinking complete failure is
imminent....
FWIW it may be worth setting a quota, or making /var in its own
partition/disk
Regards
Greg Wright
IT Consultant Sydney Australia
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