In an earlier post, I gave you the the data needed to diagnose a hard drive failure and several symptoms of the failure. In this post, we’ll go over my observations and fixes.
First problem
I mentioned that partitions 6 and 7 were complaining of errors. Naturally, the way to fix these is to [...]

I got a call today from a new client, M. Four years or so ago, M’s company bought a Linux-based file server from a local company that is now defunct. Some time ago, the mirrored drive went bad and the system kept running as Linux systems are wont to do. Unfortunately, the [...]