File System Errors

[Timothy A. Holmes]

Good Morning Everyone:

 

I was attempting to make an update to our webserver this morning, and
got an error telling me that I did not have write permissions to a
directory that I should have,  I sshed in and tried to check the
permission, and change them, and received notification that my
filesystem was read only.  This is an FC3 box running an ext3 file
system.  I thought this to be extremely suspicious, so I went to the
console to investigate.  When I got there, the screen was full of
scrolling notices that there had been a journal exception.  

 

I rebooted the system, and when it came back telling me that the file
system had been uncleanly unmounted, I forced the file system integrity
check.  It promptly kicked me out to a shell, and told me to run the
fsck command, which I did,  Its now running the command.

 

My question has four parts:

 

1.	What happened? 
2.	What can I do to prevent it from happening again (this is the
second time in 6 months that this has happened on this box)? 
3.	what else do I need to do to remedy it 
4.	is there any way that I could have known about this earlier, I
interacted with the box last on Saturday afternoon, and it appeared
happy then. 

 

Any and all input that you might have would be appreciated.

 

TIM

 

 

Timothy A. Holmes

IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher

 

Medina Christian Academy

A Higher Standard...

 

Jeremiah 33:3

Jeremiah 29:11

Esther 4:14

 

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