Hour 9 Fixing Broken Disks
Many tasks of a Unix system administrator are preventative, from managing user accounts to balancing loads on servers, to configuring and monitoring an Apache Web server. If all is going well, and the planets are not in retrograde, you should be able to manage a Unix system or two for quite a while without any problems cropping up.
There’s no way to completely eliminate the dangers inherent in running a computer system, even one with an operating system as stable and mature as Unix. Many things can go wrong, but the primary failure that you’re likely to see is a disk hiccup.
That’s what this brief hour will focus on—how ...
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