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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>
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To: Craig Nuttall <admin@aus.sh>
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Subject: Re: problems with var partition
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I actually came across this just this morning. A partition that, when
heavily accessed, resulted in a system panic. Luckikly for me, I was
able to newfs the partition and restore the data very easily, and I've
been torture testing it for about 2 hours now with now problems
(previous torture tests resulted in a panic in less than 15 minutes)
I would recommend going to single user mode, doing a dump of the /var
parition, newfsing the partition and then restoring - see if that fixes
it.

-Bill

Craig Nuttall wrote:
> 
> the /var partition on my ATA100 HDD has started to cause me some problems.
> The server experienced a "dirty" shutdown (power fail) and on reboot  got
> quite a few fsck errors and the request to run fsck manualy.
> 
> I did that and repaired the problems, now I am seeing various processes
> exiting with error code 11 for no apparent reason, also if I run fsck after
> 5-10 mins of uptime, I see errors on the var partition.
> 
> seems that as soon as files are written or removed from the var partition, I
> then get errors. I can reboot to single user and run fsck to fix the errors
> but it would appear that I may be losing data each time I do that.
> 
> softupdates is active on /var, but the symptoms remain even if I disable
> softupdates. I am at a loss as to what I need to do here, starting to wonder
> if I have to reinstall :-(
> 
> any help would be appreciated, please reply to admin@aus.sh since I am not
> subscribed to this list
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Craig.
> 
> (happy to provide any other details which may be needed, just dont know how
> much or what to provide right now)
> 
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