Re: FS corruption... some help maybe??

Joe (josepha48@yahoo.com)
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:41:19 -0400 (EDT)

> I can only support that! - I have an old 486 with 133 MHz at
> home, working as
> a gateway for me at home. I had it running for the first time
> with a Linux
> kernel version 2.0.30 for about 96 days, when it crashed. -
> The reason was -
> oh, no! - Not Linux! It was a broken CPU-fan! - I used this
> occasion, put in
> a more silent fan for the power supply, as well as another
> harddisk and
> upgraded to 2.0.36. - Since then, I never rebooted the system
> again. It
> currently has an uptime of about 165 days and I expect it to
> run far longer.
> My only fear is a powerfailure or that that bloody CPU-fan
> will break again.
>
> Can you tell me, what use rebooting is?

new hardware, sometimes (keyword is sometimes not all the
time) you may need to reboot for changes in inetd configurations
to take effect.. /etc/hosts file changes, I have had to.. what
is your system doing?
how do you run fsck? can you unmount the system drive and
run fsck on it? And not reboot? If that is the case then rather
than reboot I'd do that once a week ..

> At work (where I use Sun workstations) I have three machines
> (USER-Workstations!
> Where there are sitting users at the thing, logging in and out
> and crashing
> their applications all day long ;) ) - and these three
> machines have an
> uptime of far more than 280 days!!!!! (one is over 290 !)
>
does Suns filesystems need to be fsck'd?

> Can anybody please show me *any* NT-User-WS with such uptime?
>

okay now you are dreaming...
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