Alex

URGENT, SERVER DOWN!

I tried partitioning the second drive and
formatting to use as backup, and at some
point, it requested reboot to load to kernel
the new partition tables...

after reboot, the server didn't came up again.

also, while trying to partition and format the
second drive, it was going extremely slow
(I worked 4 hours on it...) and errors poped
out...

I come to the conclusion, that the second drive
of 500GB is useless and damaged, and your
failure on past, was because of corrupt hardware,
thus, you need to take these steps to proceed:

ticket to FDC to:
-remove ASAP /DEV/SDB (second, 500 GB sata drive)
-edit in safe mode /etc/fstab and comment out with # the
last line that is mounting of backup partition...
-boot the system and make sure all are ok, and perform
for safety a complete scan disk (fs check)...
-shutdown the box and install a new replacement secondary
drive of 500GB
-boot the system, and at this point email me again
to format and mount the new drive...



Best Regards,
Alex