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To: Stephen Waits <swaits@pr.erau.edu>
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Subject: Re: news server filesystems.. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Jan 95 10:39:30 MST."
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 10:10:51 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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You have serious disk problems.  Dying drive?  Bad cables?  Bad termination?
Flakey controller?

					Jordan

> If I don't nightly fsck (usually -y) my news spool partition there is 
> almost always some sort of bad directory (that my news server can't write 
> into) or file that makes my news server unhappy.  fsck -y usually clears 
> out a _LOT_ of problems.  
> 
> It is 1.1.5.1 (waiting for 2.x to settle down) with an Ultrastor 34F 
> (VLB) and a connor 1.3 G SCSI-2 drive.
> 
> Any Ideas?
> 
> --Steve