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mysql table permamently is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failedview story

http://unix.stackexchange.com – I have xen virtual machine (debian stable in PV mode). (HowTos)

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pam_mount of smb share on rhel6, home directory not available for login - probably SELinux?view story

http://serverfault.com – I'm using the Fedora 12 pam_mount / libHX RPMs on a RHEL 6 x86_64 system to automatically mount home directories from a NetApp system configured with NTFS-only security AD-bound logins work fine - I'm having problems with making it automatically mount and map user homedir shares. (HowTos)

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Fedora on LVM loses file privilegesview story

http://serverfault.com – Some time ago I had to disable fsck scanning at the boot time. This was because it couldn't scan disk. I believed that it didn't be a problem but today I cannot upgrade alsa because yum says me that it couldn't overwrite /etc/asound.conf file. So, I typed ls -l /etc|grep asound and this is what I get: -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? asound.conf What is going on? (HowTos)

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[ubuntu] Save data from inconsistent NTFS partitionview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – Hello everybody. Here is the problem I've been fighting with for a few days now: my Windows XP laptop stopped booting, throwing blue screen at me with "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error. Long story short, I found out the reason was that the NTFS partition of my HDD that Windows was installed on got corrupted somehow. First I decided to solve Windows trouble with Windows stuff. (Hardware)

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How to remove console-tools completely?view story

http://askubuntu.com – After removing console-tools using apt-get --purge remove console-tools I am getting the following error during boot init: Failed to spawn console-setup main process: unable to execute: No such file or directory fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 So it looks like remove messed up to correctly remove console-tools package. (HowTos)

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Can't seem to fsck remote server drive with ubuntu server 10.04 LTSview story

http://serverfault.com – I've been getting a lot of crashes on my remote dedicated server - after they occur (in all sorts of different processes) the server becomes unresponsive and I have to reboot it. (HowTos)

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My Ubuntu Server filesystem just crashed. Need some help! How to recover files or filesystem?view story

http://askubuntu.com – None of my sites worked, saying that the /tmp/ folder was not writeable. I ssh-ed into the server, and indeed, everyting was read only. I restarted with the fsck flag, and now I get a grub error. Any tips on recovering my data? In order of importance, I need the mysql database folder(Lots of man hours went there). I can get my code back from my repository. (HowTos)

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What is the best way to check (and repair) hard drive for bad sectors?view story

http://askubuntu.com – I used the following utilities to check my ext4 partitions: fsck badblocks Google and SO also suggest smartctl. I'm just wondering what are the differences between all those tools and which one is better. (HowTos)

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mysql crashes every few secondsview story

http://serverfault.com – The problem is that my MySQL server keeps crashing every few seconds. Even if I repeat a simple SQL command several times, the MySQL server goes down: mysql> show databases; ERROR 2006 (HY000): MySQL server has gone away No connection. (HowTos)

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How to fsck /usr with LVM?view story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – Wasn't sure where to post this:I just applied a pile of updates to my Arch+MythTV PVR. Not necessarily related to my problem, but this update included the replacement for mtab. On reboot, I get dumped into single-user because /usr is dirty. Dirty dirty /usr. Of course, I cannot fsck it because I cannot unmount it. (HowTos)