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Old 11-10-2005, 11:11 AM   #1
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Unhappy Hard disk failing? write error: Bad file descriptor


Hi,

I have a Linux Redhat 9 mail server. I am starting to see the following
error sometimes in the maillog:

SYSERR(root): putbody: write error: Bad file descriptor: 1 Time(s)

Does this indicate a failing file system?

I have checked lost+found on the both the system's partitions and
they are empty.

Can someone explain what this error might mean and what, if anything I
should do about it?


System Info:
Redhat 9 on Dell PE2450 with RAID5 array.

Thanks,
Geoff
 
Old 11-10-2005, 12:22 PM   #2
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"Does this indicate a failing file system?"

No. You probably have a corrupt block on the disk which is possibly fixable.

"I have checked lost+found on the both the system's partitions and
they are empty."

fsck places orphan files in lost+found. If you have not run fsck then there will be nothing in lost+found.

"Can someone explain what this error might mean and what, if anything I
should do about it?"

You can diagnose and probably fix the error by running fsck. fsck has to be run against a umounted file system so you would probably have to take the server down to run fsck. You have to balance how badly you want to fix the error versus how badly you want to avoid down time.


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Old 11-10-2005, 02:14 PM   #3
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Hi Steve,

Thanks for the response. I did do an fsck recently. It failed with an error,
but I was not able to investigate that further at the time (it was raining
in the server room, so that was the least of troubles!).

I'm trying to get permission to take the server down to try fsck again.
If I can't do fsck soon, is that error likely to result in further corruption?

Cheers,
Geoff
 
Old 11-10-2005, 04:44 PM   #4
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"If I can't do fsck soon, is that error likely to result in further corruption?"


Probably not. An error in a file system does not generally have a cascading effect.

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Old 12-14-2005, 10:41 AM   #5
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Hi Again,
fsck seemed to do the trick. All has been well
with this machine for some time now.

...Except now we have another error on the same
machine:

Dec 12 12:39:42 igor kernel: aacraid:ID(0:01:0); Error Event [command:0x2a]
Dec 12 12:39:42 igor kernel: aacraid:ID(0:01:0); Hardware Error [k:0x4,c:0x19,q:0x0]
Dec 12 12:39:42 igor kernel: aacraid:ID(0:01:0); Defect List Error

Can anyone explain what these mean?
What should be done about this?

Thanks again,
Geoff
 
  


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