Steve,
I just learned something new and in my opinion quite excelent about
the fsck forced check when it runs and finds problems. Last night
while doing my email thing, I experienced a power failure. When the
power did not come back on, I went to bed. Today, I got up and went
to work, then just now, after returning home, I started Linux, and
the time for a forced check had come. Of course fsck found problems
which it could not repair on it's own. It gave me a message that it
was dumping me to a prompt, and that I should enter my root password
( for a bash prompt) to repair the problems, or press CTRL+D for a
normal start. Of course I chose to repair the problems, and ran fsck
with only the / filesystem partition as a parameter.
ex: fsck /dev/hda# (in my case # = 3). fsck then went into action,
and checked the filesystem again, and interactively gave me the
option to repair the things which had gotten fouled up by the power
failure. What a great way to handle such a situation! I almost did
not have to know what to do. This distro continues to impress me more
and more as I use it. My heart felt thanks to the Mandrake team and
the authors of fsck for their excelent work!
Ernie
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Steve Winston wrote:
> Hy ernie, no soapbox, just the truth.
> Anyway, I will go update that kernel. Thanks for the
> advice.
> adios, Steve
> --- "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you are using the 6.0 version of Linux-Mandrake
> > off the CD, you
> > will want to go to one of the ftp mirrors listed on
> > the Mandrake
> > site, and in the download folder, get the kernel
> > version 2.2.9-27mdk
> > RPM file. Use either the rpm command or the
> > graphical RPM icon on the
> > KDE desktop to install the updated kernel, then edit
> > the
> > /etc/lilo.conf file with a text editor to use the
> > updated kernel. It
> > fixes some issues with the shutdown procedures.
> >
> > If you already have the updated kernel, then the
> > message you are
> > getting is not an error, it is a good thing, because
> > it means that
> > the system is checking the condition of your
> > filesystem for you. You
> > want this to happen every now and then. If fsck
> > finds any problems,
> > it will repair most of them, without any
> > intervention from you. If it
> > can not do a needed repair, it will tell you so, at
> > which point you
> > should remount the filesystem in read only mode
> > (read the man page
> > for instructions), and run fsck from a command line
> > to do the needed
> > repair.
> >
> > When the forced check is finished, it will tell you
> > "% files are non
> > contigious", but then the next time you boot Linux,
> > the check will
> > report that /dev/hd# is clean, indicating that fsck
> > did indeed
> > defragment the filesystem for you. So be patient
> > when this message
> > comes up. It is a good safety measure, and was set
> > up for you when
> > you installed Linux-Mandrake. To me, this is just
> > another example of
> > the care and interest in stability we get from the
> > good people at
> > Mandrakesoft. You do not get this kind of pre
> > configured maintenance
> > with Windoze. They give you tools of sorts, but you
> > have to find them
> > on your own, and remember to use them, or set up
> > still another app to
> > run them for you on a scheduled basis, and then it
> > is when the OS is
> > all up and running. I think this solution is more
> > elegent.
> >
> > Well, I'll get off the soapbox now <red cheeks>,
> >
> > Ernie
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, PSM 0x2710] wrote:
> > > Firstly thanks to everyone who offered insight as
> > to the Office Suite question.
> > >
> > > Another question for any interested parties. At
> > boot i get the following
> > > message:
> > >
> > > /dev/hda5 has reached maximum mount count, check
> > forced. . .
> > >
> > > could someone tell me what that's in reference to
> > and how i might go about
> > > fixing that? Thanks all!
> > > --
> > >
> > > Seth Gibson
> > > www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710
> > > members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under
> > Construction)
> > > To paraphrase my friend stephen:
> > > "life can be like that great ifs. screensaver .
> > .random garbage goes in and
> > > beautiful things come out."
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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