Re: Serious Crash last Friday

excuse me, but what is a "non-destructive badblocks (or
whatever) test" - and how can I do this?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Sullivan" <andrew@libertyrms.info>
To: "pg" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Serious Crash last Friday


> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 08:44:25AM +0200, Henrik Steffen wrote:
> >
> > I will do an fsck tonight to see if something with the hardware is
wrong.
>
> That won't guarantee you don't have bad hardware.  Are you seeing
> anything in the syslog?  If you do a non-destructive badblocks (or
> whatever) test, what happens?  I'd expect that, at least, to show up
> any hardware problem.
>
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