Hi. I am the subject under consideration.I had crashed my jaunty >The power failure must >have messed pretty hard with the data and possibly the disk hardware >as well. @gokul as for now am not having any problem with the hardware...Am now up and running with 60GB as ext4 file system partitions and a 20GB free space..So i dont have a problem with hardware(hopefuly!!)..(and i had aups but it ws not charged ;) )
On 8/30/09, Visakh <gokulda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Aug 28, 2:46 pm, Rajeev J Sebastian <rajeev.sebast...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Doesnt Ubuntu use a journalling filesystem ? > > You are right. Most of the Linux file systems are journaling FSs. > That includes ext3, ext4 and XFS. However, ext2 is not such a one. > Journaling FSs should be immune to this kind of error. Besides, > folders like /etc are unlikely to undergo much change during normal > operation - they are read a lot, but not written to as much. So, this > is not exactly a file system software error. The power failure must > have messed pretty hard with the data and possibly the disk hardware > as well. > > And as for the kernel panic message, I am not really sure what it > means. However, with so many critical folders corrupted, it may not be > worth tracking down the error. Reinstall is the best option. And yes, > having a UPS is a good option. Infact until now, I thought it was the > only option users took. > > Regards, > Gokul Das > > > -- Srihari K --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
