[lugm.org] scan disk on linux system.

[Ajay R Ramjatan]

Hi there,

Sorry to hear about your distress. If you have an IP-KVM, please use
this to boot with a boot-cd (ask your datacenter for help) and rescue
your system. If not, ask the datacenter to do it for you and give them
precise instructions on what you want done. E.g., do you want a rescue
or a completely new install? Do you want to preserve data on certain
devices such as /home?

Now is the time you will be testing how good your backup mechanism is
assuming something ReallyBad(TM) happened. I wish you can solve your
problem with just a simple reboot and fsck with the help of your
datacenter tech guys.

Let us know how it works out!

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Sebastien <david20 at intnet.mu> wrote:
>
> Of course the lazy option is to reload. . .I am just curious on this one.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at discuss.lugm.org
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at discuss.lugm.org] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:01 PM
> To: LUGM Discuss Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [lugm.org] scan disk on linux system.
>
> Hi Sebastien,
>
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Sebastien wrote:
>
>> I was working on a remote system installing cpanel and stuff like
>> that. I run scandisk while the file system was mounted.
>>
>> Now the system is not able to boot. Getting kernel panic at boot.
>>
>> I am a bit lazy to reconfigured the server again. I am using Xen and
> centos.
>> Any ideas what can be done?
>
> You're a bit lazy in providing details about the problem too. Maybe if you
> imagine the problem really hard, we might be able to psychically determine
> what it is and fix it for you using telekinesis.
>
> If you're as lazy as you say, then reinstalling will be easier than
> recovering the server, which sounds like it might be seriously hard work,
> depending on how many "errors" you "fixed" in fsck. By the way, if you
> really ran scandisk and not fsck against the filesystem, you might as well
> give up now.
>
> If you're as lazy as you say, you might find that having good backups helps
> you to get away with it.
>
> Cheers, Chris.
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