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berserk

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Registered: 2011-08-01

Posts: 3

Problems after force reboot. Hard disk problems

Yesterday, I ran a c program on my work station. And, the program have some big out puts, files with size 2G,7G.

And then the disk was filled. Then some problem happened.

When rebooting it shows something like:

INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"
INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

And then, after some time. It successfully boot up. But there are still problems:

when I try to delete or mv or cp some of the big data,  the /home directory file system automatically remounted as read only file system.

And I try to reboot it. It again seems ok, but still can't do any thing to the data, if I try the same thing happens again.

After some search, I thought there must be some problem on the disk. And try to fix it.
I find a unbuntu 12.04 CD, use the disk utils, I mis-formatted the swap area.

Now, it is repeating the error like:

INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"
INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

and can't boot.

What can I do now. How to fix my disk? It a workstation for many people, and the disk is of size 1 T, the /home directory has a size about 800 GB with 780 used.

What I can do?

masteryod

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Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 433

Re: Problems after force reboot. Hard disk problems

/home partition doesn't count in this case - it can be filed 100% if it's separate partition. For system to work properly you need some space left on root partition.

Boot-up live cd and see what's your disk usage looks like.

PS did you tried cp or mv files from within live cd?

Last edited by masteryod (2012-11-21 15:47:18)

berserk

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Registered: 2011-08-01

Posts: 3

Re: Problems after force reboot. Hard disk problems

Yes, I am coping the files out from /home to the other disk of my workstation.
I am trying to back up the data and fix this disk now. There might be some physical problem.

And, the / partition have enough space, more 30G free space. No problem detected there.

masteryod

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Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 433

Re: Problems after force reboot. Hard disk problems

And, the / partition have enough space, more 30G free space. No problem detected there.

Oh, ok. From description I thought that your C program could just fill up root partition which leads to problems. Good luck as I don't have new ideas right now.