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From: Stephen Waits <swaits@pr.erau.edu>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: news server filesystems.. 
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On Thu, 12 Jan 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

If that were so, how come my root, and /usr filesystems rarely have
problems (they are used MUCH less than /news)...  Were there every any
problems in the uha driver? 

> You have serious disk problems.  Dying drive?  Bad cables?  Bad termination?
> Flakey controller?
> 
> > 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
> 

--Steve