Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-10-02 Thread Sharrea Day
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:48, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I think e2fschk is a front end that invokes the correct fsck.* program. If you type man fsck.ext3 you are shown the e2fschk man page. On my MDK9.1 there is no fsck.reiserfs command, only fsck.ext3. Could it be an alias? How 'bout

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-10-02 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 02:46, Sharrea Day wrote: On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:48, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I think e2fschk is a front end that invokes the correct fsck.* program. If you type man fsck.ext3 you are shown the e2fschk man page. On my MDK9.1 there is no fsck.reiserfs command, only

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-10-01 Thread Raffaele Belardi
I think e2fschk is a front end that invokes the correct fsck.* program. If you type man fsck.ext3 you are shown the e2fschk man page. On my MDK9.1 there is no fsck.reiserfs command, only fsck.ext3. Could it be an alias? The command should output something. In my case the output is (hda1 is an

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-10-01 Thread Raffaele Belardi
I use Journalling FS too (ext3) and, according to man, e2fsck can process ext3 also: E2fsck also supports ext2 filesystems countaining a journal, which are also sometimes known as ext3 filesystems, by first applying the journal to the filesystem before continuing with normal e2fsck

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-10-01 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:03:29 +0200 Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Journalling FS too (ext3) and, according to man, e2fsck can process ext3 also: E2fsck also supports ext2 filesystems countaining a journal, which are also sometimes known as ext3 filesystems, by first

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-09-30 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Or bad disk.I've had two disks breaking up recently, behaviour is always _very_ strange. You could check partitions with # e2fschk -f -c /dev/hda? -f forces the check -c performs bad block scan (I've never done this, don't know how long it takes) Substitute hda? with the name of your

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-09-30 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 02:55, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Or bad disk.I've had two disks breaking up recently, behaviour is always _very_ strange. You could check partitions with # e2fschk -f -c /dev/hda? -f forces the check -c performs bad block scan (I've never done this, don't know how

[newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-09-29 Thread Terence J. Golightly
List, I just started my machine after leaving it off while away from home. I noticed that when I booted the machine, right over the third? column where the devices are listed with there associated interrupts was a rectangular section colored green with four greek letters shaped like Es (I can't

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Weaver
Terence J. Golightly wrote: List, I just started my machine after leaving it off while away from home. I noticed that when I booted the machine, right over the third? column where the devices are listed with there associated interrupts was a rectangular section colored green with four greek

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-09-29 Thread Glenn Wright
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 17:13, Mark Weaver wrote: snip Mark; I think he's referring to the series of steps in http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/mdoc/ref/ts-system-freeze.html Hi Terry, I seriously doubt you've got a virus. If you do, and I don't think thats what it is, then that would

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-09-29 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 18:13, Mark Weaver wrote: Terence J. Golightly wrote: List, I just started my machine after leaving it off while away from home. I noticed that when I booted the machine, right over the third? column where the devices are listed with there associated interrupts

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-09-29 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 18:49, Glenn Wright wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 17:13, Mark Weaver wrote: snip Mark; I think he's referring to the series of steps in http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/mdoc/ref/ts-system-freeze.html snip

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-09-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 29 September 2003 08:52 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: I don't think it is really a virus only that I noticed this on the POST. It just reminds me of the bad old days of dos viri. I am having some strange things happening when it starts. fsck apparently check all my partitions