--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joris Huizer wrote: > > >>>First, I had a weird warning about a change in > >>> > >>> > >>memory > >> > >>>while nothing should have changed - I did nothing > >>>special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the > >>>probs go on: > >>> > >>>When I try to boot I get an error message: > >>> > >>>checking root system... > >>>fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) > >>>/dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, > check > >>>forced. > >>>/dev/hdb1: ... > >>>unattached inode 917614 > >>> > >>>/dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck > >>> > >>> > >>MANUALLY > >> > >> > >>>(i.e., without -a or -p options) > >>> > >>>fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. > >>> > >>> > >I thought it'd probably be hard - but just saying > yes > >to every question got everything working again. > > > >Can any of you tell what could have caused this > prob ? > > > > > > > > > > Not knowing more details about the "change in > memory", it's impossible > to say. There may be some details in one of your > system logs (/var/log/ > . . .). However, any number of things can cause a > file to fail getting > closed, or corrupted, etc, such as a power outage, > or a program lockup, > a bad spot on the drive, etc. > > You might be interested in converting your ext2 file > systems to ext3, > which is a journaling mode, and more resistant to > file system > corruption. It's a simple thing; just run "tune2fs > -j /dev/hdb1" (for > the hdb1 partition), and edit /etc/fstab, changing > the hdb1 line from > ext2 to ext3, and you're in business. Do this for > all your ext2 > filesystems, or just some, or none; it's your > choice. >
Hmmm... I think I might do that allright... but before I do that: are there any (possible) problems involved with ext3 or is/was ext2 just more standard ? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
