[mythtv-users] Hard drive failure...
Ryan A. Carris
rac at racarris.com
Thu Mar 6 19:18:03 EST 2003
JC wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Was running Myth CVS just great as of about a week ago. Have about 60gb
> worth of shows recorded, and then things just "hung". Couldn't even task
> (snip)
> Now it won't boot again.
>
> This PC had run perfectly for about 2 years with Win2k and never a glitch of
> trouble. Do you think turning on the dma stuff as suggested in the
> setup/faq could have screwed it up? If so, would it really take a few weeks
> to screw up?
>
It is NOT likely a hardware problem. It is likely a corrupt filesystem.
Type "man fsck", Read, Understand, then Run "fsck". This should get
your computer back up and running.
> Also, should I try and switch the file system (using linux default now -
> ext2 right?) to some journaled one or something "safer"?
> (snip)
> JC
Another alternitive to running a journaled file system, is to mount your
existing partitions using the "sync" option. IMHO this is a much better
solution.
Linux, by default, sets 'ext2' partitions to be written async. This is
not a good thing, because data is not written to the disk right a way,
therefore if you hit the reset button, you are doomed to loose data,
everytime. (no other OS does this, as far as I know) Mounting the
filesystems w/ the sync option will definitely sacrifce speed though,
but is much safer. I say that this is a better option, because it
doesn't carry the overhead/hassle of a Journeled filesystem and almost
as safe.
But, I would only do this if you have setup a seperate partition for you
video that can still be mounted 'async', so that you don't loose speed
there.
-rac
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