Since you mentioned Dell, one thing to check would be PERC and hard drive
firmware levels. There have been a number of updates to both over the past
few years concerning silent data corruption under a variety of conditions.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 03:07:24PM -0400, Zoltan Forray wrote:
> Thanks for finding that but, as you said, it doesn't help much.  The disk
> filled to 100% due to DB2 taking dumps but that doesn't tell me what caused
> the dumping in the first place.
>
> We are still running Dell full diagnostics (started yesterday afternoon and
> was at 78% as of 2pm EDT).  My OS guy is watching the pot boil and will
> report back once it finishes.  Then it that is clean, he will wipe it and
> reinstall RH 6, since it doesn't look like what is left (/TSMDB, /TSMLOG,
> /TSMARCHLOG) will be of any value without the root filesystem.

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