On 10/30/06, Henrik Hudson <rhavenn at rhavenn.net> wrote: > On Monday 30 October 2006 09:16, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> sent a > missive stating: > > I just got a call from a school that has a mail server that wont boot. > > > > The info I have is: > > > > Booting ---more here----- > > root (hd0,0) > > Filesystem type ----more here---- > > > > Uncompressing Linux > > crc error > > --system halted > > > > At the very least I need to get the home and mail files off of the > > server. What would be the best approach here? > > Grab your favorite cd-based distro (knoppix comes to mind) pop that in there > and see if the drives are still okay. FTP / SAMBA / SFTP the data off to > another medium. > > Henrik > -- > Henrik Hudson > rhavenn at rhavenn.net > ------------------------------ > "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who > understand binary and those who don't..." > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > If SMART is enabled on that drive use smartctl to possibly see any indications of hardware failure. Grab the important stuff first as I've started copying data on dying drives only to have them completely fail in that process. -- Donovan Niesen