Hi, I have a very strange and ominous problem. After trying to exit from slrn, slrn spent a very long time writing the updates .jnewsrc file, eventually exiting with a disk full error. (I have multiple gigs of free space in / and /home). Following this I could not do anything - most commands were greeted with something like:
bash: /bin/df Input/Output Error I could still us ls, and I got aptitude to open but with big ugly warnings about how it couldn't write files and no changes could be made. shutdown didn't work (Input/Output Error etc.) , and logging out dumped me at a log-in prompt instead of gdm, so I just hit the power button. I rebooted, then issued shutdown -rf now to get an fsck of both / and /home. Now I'm up and running again, but very worried that my disk is about to die. fsck didn't seem to produce any warning messages, but I'm not sure how to check this. How do I know if fsck found any errors, and if it does does it fix them or just let you know? How should I proceed in making sure my computer isn't going to die and take all my data with it? (I am in the process of backing up all my files, which I hadn't done in the last *two weeks*. stupid stupid me.) >From what I found on google this is either the beginning of the end of my harddrive, or just a trivial hiccup resulting from slrn crashing and corrupting some bit of file somewhere. -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
