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- From: rryan@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Strange Server Crash ??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.164649.43015@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 16:46:48 CDT
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- We have a Novell network, the server is running Netware 3.11.
- I must maintain this net, but my office is not in the same building as the net
- itself.
-
- Recently, on two - three separate occasions, the server has crashed. I was not
- there when it crashed, nor was anything noted as having appeared on the screen
- re: errors. However, the only thing I do know is that on each occasion,
- users apparently attempted to write to a volume (NOT the system volume), and in
- so doing, exceeded the capacity of the volume. The result (?) was that the
- server crashed hard. When I got out there to reboot it, (no, i don't have a
- remote link from my office) The disk whcih contained the volume in question
- was trashed.
- That disk contains (contained) two volumes (neither of them were system
- volumes) Each time this happens, I have to re-create the volumes on that disk
- and restore from tape.
-
- My question:
-
- 1) Is it really possible that an attempt to write to a volume which
- exceeds the volume's capacity (not the system volume) can crash a server?
-
- 2) ifso, could that action destroy all volume information on that
- entire disk?
-
- I know about disk quotas. The volume in question does not have quotas on it...
- the other volume on the same disk does. Yes, I can restrict user quotas...
- the only problem being the volume in question is organized by group rather than
- user.
-
- I really don't have good information here because I've never seen it happen.
- I jsut get to clean it up afterwards...
-
- If anyone has ideas, please email them to me:
-
- rryan@tesla.ece.ukans.edu or
- rryan@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
-
- I'd appreciate any and all assistance.
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- - Rebecca Ryan
- RSL Laboratory
- University of Kansas
-
-