linux

The last three nights, one of my USB controllers has gone offline in the middle of the night, knocking 4 of my 8 disks offline. The first two times, I was able to get it working again with mdadm -A /dev/md0 -f /dev/sd[hgeflkji]. I tried that this morning and it's not working. Any ideas...

Hi all, Recently my Synology diskstation (with 2 drives) came up with an error for the second drive. The message stated that the volume had crashed. To see what the problem could be I added the disks to my computer and tried to mount the RAID volume. However, this always fails with the message...

I have a large Raid6 array built using mdadm with 6 components, each 2TB, making the array size around 8TB. Recently, there was a storm, and after a restart Ubuntu's Disk Utility says the state of the array is "Not running, partially assembled". I tried the following $ sudo mdadm --assemble...

I'm currently working with Redhat 5.5 at work and there is some question and debate as to how accurate the different process monitoring tools are in gathering information. We've been using tools such as top, ps, free, and vmstat to collect information about general process usage. Are there...

Is there a command I can run that will tell me which driver is being loaded to control the hard drive? I'm using a virtual machine running rPath linux (very similar to Red Hat) and we're trying to get the VMWare tools installed. One of the drivers in the vmware tools is for the storage system...

Has Hell frozen over creating a land bridge between Linux and Microsoft? Microsoft is supplying kernal-code and Linux drivers for Hyper-V.